Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

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.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

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

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.