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" For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation. "
Enda Kenny
People
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Me
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" Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves. "
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" The decision of a majority of people in the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union is profoundly disappointing. "
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" My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years. "
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" 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. "
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" I have no interest in the trappings of power. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus. "
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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. "
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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. "
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Me
" The E.U. needs renewal, and we need a strong U.K. at the table to help to drive the reform agenda that can help the union regain competitiveness and growth. "
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" I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs. "
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" I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.' "
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" The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement. "
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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. "
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Service
" People put dates on any kind of comment that you make. "
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" My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up. "
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" 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. "
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" My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do. "
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" We have spent our time in government fixing the economy. "
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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? "
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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. "
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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. "
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" I am a big believer in Springsteen, I like his social comment; I like the commitment he puts into his work. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here. "
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" I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21. "
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