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

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

" My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Conservation is important... water comes at a cost. "

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

" I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility. "

" I am a big believer in Springsteen, I like his social comment; I like the commitment he puts into his work. "

" Emigration is always a difficulty. "

" 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. "

" No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy. "

" I have never been on the trail of developers or contractors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics. "

" Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves. "

" My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing. "