My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.

I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

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.

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 really exist anymore.

I do think corporations should pay their tax.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

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.

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

I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.