Words matter. These are the best Enda Kenny Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Conservation is important… water comes at a cost.
I accept the verdict of the people.
We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.
We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe.
I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that’s all.
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.
I enjoy his concerts and OK, maybe – I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t play the guitar, but I am going to go a long way if I keep following Springsteen.
I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done.
People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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.
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.
Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.
I intend to serve a full term as Taoiseach.
You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.
My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years.
Our revenue commissions are very happy and very clear that they showed no sweetheart deals and no preference for any company and never do and never have and never will.
People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.
The lion’s share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
Cloyne’s revelations are heart-breaking.
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.
Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.
I didn’t go on a campaign of developers asking, ‘Please give me money.’
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
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.
I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
For too long, Ireland has neglected its children.
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.
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.
Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.
Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland’s problems.
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.
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.
The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
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.
I think ‘austerity’ is a much abused word. I prefer to call it ‘fiscal discipline’ or financial, ‘financial competency.’
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.
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 get on very well with Denis Naughten, absolutely.
I have never been on the trail of developers or contractors.
I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.
My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.
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.
You need to talk to people, and you need to hear what it is they have to say.
I’ve often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there’s something about Ireland.
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change – this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.
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.
I don’t like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don’t like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
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.
My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.
If somebody says, ‘I am a gay person, and I want to get married,’ is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?
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.
As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People’s Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.
It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses.
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.
