If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.