Leo Varadkar Quotes

Leo Varadkar

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 18, 1979

I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.

Leo Varadkar

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

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

Leo Varadkar

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.

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

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

Leo Varadkar

Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have always talked about politics and religion and money, and all those things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, we did.

Leo Varadkar

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

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

Leo Varadkar

I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.

Leo Varadkar

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

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

The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.

Leo Varadkar

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

I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.

Leo Varadkar

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

Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.

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

Leo Varadkar

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

Leo Varadkar

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

Leo Varadkar