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

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

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

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.

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

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

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.