Irish - Politician | January 18, 1979 -
I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.
Leo Varadkar
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Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.
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I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.
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Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.
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If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.
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I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged, and I certainly will be doing that.
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I am a gay man. It's not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know.
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Unless people who voted for unionist parties are suddenly going to vote for a united Ireland, which I don't believe will happen, a border poll will be defeated.
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If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
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It's not that I'm afraid to be tagged with the label of right-wing or even centre-right; I just don't believe it properly describes either the choice that we face politically or what I'm trying to say.
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