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" I intend to serve a full term as Taoiseach. "

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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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" The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Working Together

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

" 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. "

" What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody. "

" 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. "

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