Leo Varadkar Quotes

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Leo Varadkar, is quoted 92 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Ireland, Northern Ireland, Northern and Minister.

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I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.
Leo Varadkar
Stuck

Neck

Policy Issues
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The Government needs to be honest and straight with people.
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To Be Honest
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One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.
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Big Problems
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We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.
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Collapse
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I keep my private life to myself, and that's going to continue.
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Private Life
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I decided early on to be honest and trust people with the truth.
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To Be Honest
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If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.
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Best Way

Change Things
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It's up to American citizens to decide who they elect as president.
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American Citizens

Elect
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Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.
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Parliamentary
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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.
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Border
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An agreement is an agreement, and when you make it, you should stick to it.
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Agreement
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In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.
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Easy

Retrospect

Actions

Life Walk People

Judge

Walk

Life People Easy
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Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.
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Trust

Truth People Politicians

Politicians
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I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.
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Something Else
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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
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Elect

Whoever
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I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.
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Job

Career

Suppose
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
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Negotiating

Policies

Programme
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I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.
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Impeccable
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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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Sinn Fein

Fein

Mission

Sinn
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What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.
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Future I Am Me

Future Me I Am

Drives

Philosophies
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We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.
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Equality

Marriage

Ireland

Marriage Equality

Northern Ireland

Northern
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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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Demand

Insisted
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I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.
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Enormous

Family Background

Family Respect People
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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Politics Family Always

Friends And Family
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My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.
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All People
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I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
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Remains

Sinn Fein

Fein

Greatest Threat

Sinn
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Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.
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Hospitals

Likes
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I was appointed to Cabinet three times; on no occasion did I pitch for what position I wanted.
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Appointed

Cabinet

Occasion
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We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.
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Britain

Ireland

Northern Ireland

Leaves

Northern

Solution
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What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.
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Canada

World People See

Movements
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My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.
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Edgy

Instinct

Policy Issues

Showing
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I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.
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Allowing

Orientation

Own My Own Make

Dictate

My Own Own Decisions

Sexual
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There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.
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Work Morning People

Early

Far

Meet

Too Many People

Work Hard
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I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.
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Scary

Target

Future Me People
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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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Loudest
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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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Expressed

Minister
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What are these better deals the U.K. really wants from Europe and other countries? Some more clarity would be helpful.
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Clarity

Deals

Other Countries
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Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.
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Ireland

Look World Country
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I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.
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Euro

Founding
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I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.
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Department

Assigned
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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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Sacrifice
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I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.
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Realised

Change Things

Minister

Patients
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I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.
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Go Away

Minister
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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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Counterproductive

Easy

Ireland

Northern Ireland

Brexit

Jump

Northern

Result
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