Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

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

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

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

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.

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.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.