Leo Varadkar Quotes
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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.
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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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Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
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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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When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.
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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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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
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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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I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
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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 was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.
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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 have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
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I do think corporations should pay their tax.
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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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One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.
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The Government needs to be honest and straight with people.