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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" Emigration is always a difficulty. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours. "

" You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government. "

" My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do. "

" 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. "