Leo Varadkar Quotes
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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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Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.
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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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I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged, and I certainly will be doing that.
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Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.
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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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It's amazing that people were talking about me as a future leader back in 2011.
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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'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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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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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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Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.
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I do think corporations should pay their tax.
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
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Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
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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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Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.
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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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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
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We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.
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The Government needs to be honest and straight with people.