If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

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

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.