The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented...

The threat to this process doesn’t come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

The people are entitled to know what has been negotiated,

have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

So I want to see all that infrastructure removed.

Sinn Fein will not seek to interpret an organization we don’t have any authority, control or responsibility for.

There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the ‘Good Friday’ agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago.

Well, they haven’t been worked out in the last few days. We are dealing with hundreds of years of conflict.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

The full implementation of the Good Friday agreement holds out vast hope of securing an end to injustice and the inequalities and conflict which have troubled Ireland and our people for generations.

make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.

from what has been achieved.

Perhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation … maybe hope and history is reigning in Ireland

The IRA is being used as the excuse by them all not to engage properly in the process of building peace with justice in Ireland.

We can be revisionist, and that’s a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn’t airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?

come into the talks and move into substantive negotiations.

The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature,

We have got a deal. We now have to implement that deal,

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

There has been quite a lot of progress made and I think we will continue to make progress,

We hope that Mr. Blair will settle Mr. Trimble down and will bring him face-to-face with his responsibilities,

I don’t blame the people in the airports for that. I’ve raised it directly with the White House and the State Department. They have not told us we’re on the terrorist watch list. If we...

People need to calm down. What did people expect the IRA to say?

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I’m talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I’ve hugged trees in every part of this little island.

It is negative campaigning of the most raw kind, … None of these allegations are substantiated.

It’s our job as politicians to demonstrate to those in control of weapons that politics works. Because of Ulster Unionist demands we are … failing to do that.

save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation.

everyone to stay calm

The Ireland we live in today is also very different place from 15 years ago. There is now an all-Ireland agenda with huge potential.

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do...

At some point, when stretched so far, you break. We are not made of elastic.

I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.

It means that Unionists who are for the Good Friday Agreement must end their ambivalence, … And it is a direct challenge to the DUP to decide if they want to put the past behind...

People can die from the cold and people are certainly deprived because of the cold. I think the people have a right to a warm home.

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

very well motivated toward the peace process.

courageous and confident initiative.

It is likely that his death at this time is intended to undermine current efforts to make political progress. Those who carried out this murder are clearly opposed to the peace process.

The peace process lies in absolute ruins, … And the responsibility for that — and for restoring it — lies with (British Prime Minister) John Major.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

activists in a nationalist movement.

Your people are being killed; our people are being killed. We have to get beyond all his.

We have a range of candidates who are bedded in their local constituencies over quite a long period of time, who are working on a whole range of social and economic issues as well as...

Everybody in there is waiting on David Trimble.

Under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, parties have to vote for the nominees for the joint office of the First and Deputy First Ministers.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Ku Klux Klan into Harlem.