These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

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.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

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

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.

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