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

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

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

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

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

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.