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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
Leo Varadkar
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Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.
Leo Varadkar
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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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It's amazing that people were talking about me as a future leader back in 2011.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
Leo Varadkar
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Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
Leo Varadkar
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I do think corporations should pay their tax.
Leo Varadkar
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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
Leo Varadkar
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We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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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.
Leo Varadkar
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Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.
Leo Varadkar
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In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.
Leo Varadkar
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The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.
Leo Varadkar
