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" Conservation is important... water comes at a cost. "
Enda Kenny
Cost
Water
Important
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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
Women
Time
Service
" There will be no hard border from Dundalk to Derry in the context of it being a European border, and by that I mean customs posts every mile along the road. "
Enda Kenny
Road
Mean
Hard
" 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
Art
Best
You
" 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
Work
Relationship
Over
" I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.' "
Enda Kenny
Money
Campaign
Give Me
" 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. "
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Will
Good
Best
" 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
Political
Moving On
" We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking. "
Enda Kenny
Legal
System
English
" 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
Small
Survive
Mercy
" 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
Facts
Planning
Me
" I've often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there's something about Ireland. "
Enda Kenny
Enthusiasm
Ireland
Place
" For too long, Ireland has neglected its children. "
Enda Kenny
Long
Ireland
Too
" 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
Knowledge
Trust
Working Together
" 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
You
Drive
Decisions
" My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years. "
Enda Kenny
Been
Years
Wife
" We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe. "
Enda Kenny
Work
Need
Ireland
" I get on very well with Denis Naughten, absolutely. "
Enda Kenny
Well
Very
Get
" I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics. "
Enda Kenny
You
Think
Politics
" Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves. "
Enda Kenny
Problems
People
Nobody
" 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
Progress
Help
Change
" People understand that you have to do difficult things to sort out our own public finances. "
Enda Kenny
You
Understand
People
" You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you've got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public finances and get our country working. "
Enda Kenny
You
See
People
" The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind. "
Enda Kenny
Bring
Mind
Best
" The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture. "
Enda Kenny
Government
Irish
Vatican
" 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
Ireland
Failure
Impact
" 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
Building
Philosophy
Problems
" Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story. "
Enda Kenny
Confusion
End
Tax
" 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
Better
Down
" Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens. "
Enda Kenny
Priority
Own
Will
" I intend to serve a full term as Taoiseach. "
Enda Kenny
Full
Intend
Serve