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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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" My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do. "

" 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. "

" The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Working Together

" Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice. "

" The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture. "

" 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. "

" The decision of a majority of people in the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union is profoundly disappointing. "

" We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure. "

" I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking. "

" I have no interest in the trappings of power. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs. "

" I enjoy his concerts and OK, maybe - I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play the guitar, but I am going to go a long way if I keep following Springsteen. "

" Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here. "

" 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. "

" We have spent our time in government fixing the economy. "

" We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead. "

" Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country. "