Quotes by Leo Varadkar - Page 2

What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.
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Close Relationship
United Kingdom
Outcome
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My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.
Leo Varadkar /
Combine
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I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
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Abortion
Demand
Human Life
Pro Life
Request
Rights
Support
Unborn
Accept
Consider
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I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't really exist anymore.
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Manufacturing
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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 /
Ireland
Periphery
World Way See
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I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.
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Ireland
Miles
Dreamed
Travelled
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My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.
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Choices
Difficulty
Construct
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Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.
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Accompany
Gains
Unsustainable
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I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already occurred in our country.
Leo Varadkar /
Election
Enormous
Occurred
Reflected
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It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump.
Leo Varadkar /
President Trump
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Unless people who voted for unionist parties are suddenly going to vote for a united Ireland, which I don't believe will happen, a border poll will be defeated.
Leo Varadkar /
Defeated
Ireland
Believe People Will
Border
Poll
Unionist
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We always need to bear in mind that when it comes to blood transfusion, it's the person that's receiving the blood who takes the risk, not the person donating it.
Leo Varadkar /
Receiving
Bear
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When a hospital is very crowded, there will be a real push to make sure people get their X-rays, get their tests and, you know, 'Let's get them out in four days'.
Leo Varadkar /
Crowded
People Real Will
Hospital
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I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.
Leo Varadkar /
Conscience
Public Interest
Believe People I Believe
According
Believe I Believe People
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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 /
High Taxes
Labor
Capital
Define
Divide
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We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.
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Borders
Checks
Customs
Advocate
Airport
Ports
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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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Diplomatic
Enormous
Footprint
Rising
Terrorism
Uncertainty
Extend
Seek
Overseas
Threats
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Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
Leo Varadkar /
Marrying
Adopt
Largely
Obviously
Unable
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Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.
Leo Varadkar /
Convinced
Movement
Absolutely
Brexit
Individuals
North
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My opinion has always been that when it comes to deciding where specialist centres should be located, whether they are regional or national specialities, it should be done on clinical grounds.
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Clinical
Deciding
Grounds
Located
Regional
Specialist
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The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.
Leo Varadkar /
Fathom
Manchester
Modern World
Tokyo
Agricultural
Send
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I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.
Leo Varadkar /
Buying
Drink
Every Second
Shops
Staring
Anymore
Miss
Basket
Me Person See
Local
Pub
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Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
Leo Varadkar /
Arguing
Consultants
Criteria
Deviation
Professors
Clinical
Detail
Standard
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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 /
Right Wing
Tagged
Label
Properly
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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 /
Best Way
Centre
Migration
Opening
Best Good World
Best Good Believe
Good Thing
Properly
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I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.
Leo Varadkar /
Incompetent
Public Servants
Corrupt
Failed
Pensions
Servants
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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 /
Ireland
Middle Class
Society People Feel
Contribute
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There are a lot of people who want to retain the Eighth Amendment - I don't agree with that view myself - there are others who want to remove it, but when you ask them what that means, they aren't able to tell you.
Leo Varadkar /
Remove
Amendment
Retain
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What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health.
Leo Varadkar /
Mental Health
Physical Activity
Health Good Me
First Of All
Mornings
Secondly
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It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.
Leo Varadkar /
Ambition
Council
Greater
International
International Affairs
Ireland
Secure
Security Council
Affairs
Seat
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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 /
Social Issues
Myself Political People
Describe
Liberal
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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.
Leo Varadkar /
America
American President
Frank
President
Views
Certainly
Run
Speaking
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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.
Leo Varadkar /
Factors
Five
Length
Might
Pressure
Seven
Six
Slowing
Days
Stay
Hospital
Start
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People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.
Leo Varadkar /
Caught
Heat
Recollection
Scenario
Whereby
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Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have always talked about politics and religion and money, and all those things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, we did.
Leo Varadkar /
Dinner
Dinner Table
Involved
Neither
Supposed
Table
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What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.
Leo Varadkar /
Centre
Broader
Encompass
Liberal
Philosophies
Socially
Wider
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People travel overseas to do things overseas that aren't legal in Ireland all the time. You know, are we going to stop people going to Las Vegas? Are we going to stop people going to Amsterdam? There are things that are illegal in Ireland, and we don't prevent people from travelling overseas to avail of them.
Leo Varadkar /
Legal
Travel
Amsterdam
Illegal
Ireland
Las Vegas
Vegas
Time Travel People
Time Legal People
Avail
Overseas
Prevent
Travelling
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I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.
Leo Varadkar /
Customs
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Arrangement
For Example
Northern
Preserve
Solution
Stays
Unionist
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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.
Leo Varadkar /
Friends
Health
Ambulance
Footballer
Mother
Mum
Shops
Soldier
Wanted
Asked
Grow Up
Ladies
Minister
Mortified
Needless
She
Supposed
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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.
Leo Varadkar /
Daughter
Family
Dad
Home
College
England
Left
Mum
Nurse
West
Young
Family Home Dad
First
Farmer
Off
She
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If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.
Leo Varadkar /
Britain
Customs
Free Trade
Favor
Punished
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I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.
Leo Varadkar /
Equality
Implementation
Ireland
Marriage Equality
Pledge
Strategy
Advance
Attack
Sexual
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