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.

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

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

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.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

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