A biography for Enda Kennyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'”
“I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.”
“It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.”
“The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind.”
“For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.”
“One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.”
“I have no interest in the trappings of power.”
“People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.”
“Cloyne's revelations are heart-breaking.”
“I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.”
“It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses.”
“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.”
“Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.”