It was amazing that I was ever elected.

I would rather be British than just.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.