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" People understand that you have to do difficult things to sort out our own public finances. "

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" 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. "

" I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country. "

" One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus. "

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

" People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty. "

" For too long, Ireland has neglected its children. "

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

" I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all. "

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" You need to talk to people, and you need to hear what it is they have to say. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" By far, the greatest contribution Ireland can make is to lead by example, by actively pursuing its own transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. "

Lead By Example

" 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. "