2008, Election victory speech (November 2008)
“If there's anyone out there who still doubts that Ireland is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our ancestors is alive in our time, who still questions our capacity to restore ourselves, reinvent ourselves and prosper, today is your answer.”
Introducing Barack Obama in College Green, he later denied plagiarism despite 36 of his first 48 words being the exact same as an earlier speech by Obama. Irish Central http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Enda-Kenny-denies-plagiarizing-Barack-Obama-speech-from-2008-122512474.html
2010s
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Context: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.
“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”
Source: Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
[On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm, 36, 37, Nelson, Willie, Fulcrum Publishing, 2007, 9781555916244]
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The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 169
Autobiographical Essay (2001)