I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues