Quotes by Enda Kenny - Page 2

We are going to serve our full term; there will be no snap election, and we are going to do our best to ensure that 2016 is going to be a good economic year.
Enda Kenny /
Economic
Election
Term
Best Good Will
Ensure
Serve
Snap
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As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.
Enda Kenny /
Partners
Views
Political People Will
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I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.
Enda Kenny /
Ministers
Departments
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If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?
Enda Kenny /
Citizens
Deny
Married
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Get Married
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Our revenue commissions are very happy and very clear that they showed no sweetheart deals and no preference for any company and never do and never have and never will.
Enda Kenny /
Clear
Deals
Preference
Revenue
Sweetheart
Will Never Company
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Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.
Enda Kenny /
Common
Membership
Together
Working Together
External
Context
Working
Governments
Lightly
Provided
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If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country.
Enda Kenny /
Entity
Manage
Waste
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Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.
Enda Kenny /
Ireland
Murphy
Powerful
Privileged
Reports
Unwilling
Address
Brightest
Cited
Either
Horrors
Rendered
Ryan
Unable
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Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems.
Enda Kenny /
Leadership
Decision
Empty
Ireland
Populist
Rhetoric
Tough
Promises
Solution
Tough Decision
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My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.
Enda Kenny /
Alan
Minister
Move On
Reforming
Shatter
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Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.
Enda Kenny /
Let Down
Respectability
Washing
Nation
People Bad Country
Entire
Bad Country People
Professions
Sins
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COP 21 provides a unique opportunity for the political leaders of this generation to provide lasting foundations for the preservation and sustainability of generations of the future.
Enda Kenny /
Cop
Lasting
Political Leaders
Preservation
Sustainability
This Generation
Unique
Foundations
Generation
Provide
Unique Opportunity
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Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.
Enda Kenny /
Country
Infancy
Relative
Rural Areas
Speed
Used
Better People Country
Area
Old
Better Country People
Rural
Struggling
System
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The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.
Enda Kenny /
Agendas
Backwards
Destructive
Ireland
Border
Exploit
Malign
Purposes
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It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.
Enda Kenny /
Competence
Enthusiasm
Frontiers
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I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.
Enda Kenny /
Being The Best
Best Art Music
Objective
Singular
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I'm a big fan of Springsteen. Obviously, his social commentary is very powerful for me. I like his album 'The Rising.' It's not a new one, but it sticks in my mind because of what it says to me.
Enda Kenny /
Commentary
Rising
Springsteen
Sticks
Big Fan
Mind Me New
New One
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We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.
Enda Kenny /
Marriage
Colour
Discrimination
Race
Civil
Couples
Creed
Extended
Issue
Same-Sex
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The U.K. and Ireland are like-minded on E.U. matters, and the process of working together in Brussels has built an immense store of knowledge, personal relationships, and trust between our governments.
Enda Kenny /
Brussels
Immense
Ireland
Personal Relationships
Working Together
Governments
Store
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My genuine belief is that if we can get through the eurozone crisis from a political point of view, we've got a lot of engines that can drive our economy, that will restore confidence and get us moving on.
Enda Kenny /
Confidence
Moving On
Belief
Crisis
Economy
Engines
Eurozone
Genuine
Moving
Point Of View
Drive
Point
Restore
View
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Failure to curb temperature increases will impact all countries, Ireland included, but with the most immediate and drastic effects being felt, in many instances, by the most vulnerable countries and communities.
Enda Kenny /
Curb
Drastic
Effects
Ireland
Temperature
Vulnerable
Communities
Immediate
Included
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I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.
Enda Kenny /
Enormous
Given
Responsibility
Young
Job
Myself Responsibility People
Myself People Young
Old
Expect
Our People
Seriously
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We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.
Enda Kenny /
Relationship
Travel
Common
Euro
European Union
Neighbor
United Kingdom
Zone
Area
Close
Link
Nearest
Obviously
Union
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To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.
Enda Kenny /
Creation
Opinion Polls
Planning
Polls
Tangible
Me Confidence People
Commercial
Irish
Irish People
Signs
Sold
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Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.
Enda Kenny /
Legal
Determined
Euro
European Union
Deliver
Indeed
Institutional
Negotiations
Union
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Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
Enda Kenny /
Adapting
Assistance
Climate Change
Developing
Developing Countries
Human Rights
Ireland
Track
Track Record
Communities
Considerable
Recognises
Supporting
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Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect.
Enda Kenny /
Dignity
Roots
Best Family Business
Raise
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Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change - this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.
Enda Kenny /
Adapting
Carbon
Climate
Climate Change
Emissions
Improving
Reducing
Research
Addressing
Contribute
Countries
Enhancing
Global
Impacts
Irish
Realise
Sectors
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By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.
Enda Kenny /
Economy
Euro
International
Mercy
Mindset
Needed
Inside
Area
Bloated
Distorted
Prosper
Safeguards
Subsequent
Survive
To Survive
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The world has changed utterly. There was a time when you couldn't marry a Protestant. There was a time when you got married that the women had to give up their job in the public service, and when they got married, they were owned by their husbands. That's all changed.
Enda Kenny /
Public Service
Marry
Husbands
Owned
Protestant
Utterly
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We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable economic policies. We need to keep pushing forward towards a comprehensive solution to the challenges of the eurozone.
Enda Kenny /
Binding
Certainty
Eurozone
Funding
Hand In Hand
Sustainable
Durable
Economic Policies
Ensure
Fiscal
Policies
Pursuing
Solution
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
Enda Kenny /
Bureaucracy
Unemployed
Be Happy
Million People
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For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.' It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.
Enda Kenny /
Ireland
Surplus
Abroad
Invest
Export
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We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.
Enda Kenny /
Brighter
Doorstep
Enormous
Ireland
Phenomenal
Reward
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In Ireland here, the Revenue Commission have always been completely independent of the state since 1923, and they are quite adamant and quite clear that there was no preferential treatment and no special deals, no sweetheart deals, and that Apple paid the taxes that were due on their profits generated here in this country.
Enda Kenny /
Adamant
Clear
Deals
Independent
Ireland
Paid
Revenue
Special
Sweetheart
Taxes
Treatment
Since
Quite
Apple
Commission
Due
Profits
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You're not going to be able to deliver jobs locally unless you sort out the nation's problems, and that's why the big and difficult decisions about Ireland's economy have been so crucial and so difficult for people to have to accept and have to deal with, but the reality is the people gave this government an unprecedented mandate.
Enda Kenny /
Crucial
Difficult Decisions
Ireland
Unprecedented
Deliver
Locally
Mandate
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