I would rather be British than just.

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?

I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.

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

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 believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.

I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.