Leo Varadkar

I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.

— Leo Varadkar

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

— Leo Varadkar

We always need to bear in mind that when it comes to blood transfusion, it's the person that's receiving the blood who…

— Leo Varadkar

It's amazing that people were talking about me as a future leader back in 2011.

— Leo Varadkar

My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.

— Leo Varadkar

It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter...…

— Leo Varadkar

I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already…

— Leo Varadkar

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want…

— Leo Varadkar

I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.

— Leo Varadkar

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay…

— Leo Varadkar

In a time of global uncertainty, rising terrorism, and enormous threats to peace, it's right that we as a country should now…

— Leo Varadkar

We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.

— Leo Varadkar

It's up to American citizens to decide who they elect as president.

— Leo Varadkar

Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have…

— Leo Varadkar

I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't…

— Leo Varadkar

If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which…

— Leo Varadkar

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

— Leo Varadkar

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…

— Leo Varadkar

We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.

— Leo Varadkar

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

— Leo Varadkar

What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies…

— Leo Varadkar

I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.

— Leo Varadkar

There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.

— Leo Varadkar

When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven…

— Leo Varadkar