We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

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

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

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