I will not be silenced or deterred.

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally.

A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.

I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

I believe a united Ireland is inevitable. I have never put a date on it.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.

Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

I'm not going to be reduced to the position of being the implementer of Tory cuts in the North.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.

I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

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