It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

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

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

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

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

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.