I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.