One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

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.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

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

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.