Leo Varadkar Quotes
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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.
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It's amazing that people were talking about me as a future leader back in 2011.
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I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
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I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.
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If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
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Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.
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I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
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Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.
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Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.
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Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.
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It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
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It's not that I'm afraid to be tagged with the label of right-wing or even centre-right; I just don't believe it properly describes either the choice that we face politically or what I'm trying to say.
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Those of us who are in the centre believe in opening up to the world, believe migration on balance is a good thing if it is managed properly, and believe that multilateralism is the best way to solve problems.
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I do think corporations should pay their tax.
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Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.
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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
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We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.
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In a time of global uncertainty, rising terrorism, and enormous threats to peace, it's right that we as a country should now seek to extend our diplomatic footprint overseas.
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The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.
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I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.
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The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.
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In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.