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.

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.

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

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

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

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

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