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Leo Varadkar

Irish Politician

Born: Jan 18, 1979

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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them. Leo Varadkar

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The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat. Leo Varadkar

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What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that. Leo Varadkar

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I have a good social life. Leo Varadkar

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What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health. Leo Varadkar

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It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should. Leo Varadkar

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Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt. Leo Varadkar

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People travel overseas to do things overseas that aren't legal in Ireland all the time. You know, are we going to stop people going to Las Vegas? Are we going to stop people going to Amsterdam? There are things that are illegal in Ireland, and we don't prevent people from travelling overseas to avail of them. Leo Varadkar

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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... it is part of my character, I suppose. Leo Varadkar

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One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women. Leo Varadkar

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I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others. Leo Varadkar

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

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

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

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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. Leo Varadkar

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I am a gay man. It's not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know. Leo Varadkar

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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. Leo Varadkar

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The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past. Leo Varadkar

I do think corporations should pay their tax. Leo Varadkar

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Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there. Leo Varadkar

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