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.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.

It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.

I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.

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.