The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

To bring about change in this situation, it needs to be driven. Mr. Trimble is a learner-driver, and cannot be left in the driving seat. Mr. Blair has to drive the change forward on every...

Here you see (Trimble) walking out of incomplete talks last week, orchestrating a campaign of mass intimidation and all that went with it, and then he walks back into the talks this morning.

The two governments, the UUP and other parties should grasp the new opportunity that this unprecedented statement from the IICD creates.

What we saw here was the last hurrah of the Paisley-type monster that has dominated politics here for so long.

It’s hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

The White House has decided not to invite the Irish parties to the White House; that would be a disappointment. But do I interpret this as a movement by this administration away from the peace...

If you are asking me if the peace process can work if our party is expelled, no.

Today’s decision by the IRA to move into a new peaceful mode is historic and represents a courageous and confident initiative. It is truly momentous and is a defining point in the search for a...

Sinn Fein welcomes the decision by the Ulster Unionist council.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

I think the best way for the IRA to leave the stage, … is in a dignified manner that prevents any recurrence of another IRA growing up alongside.

We will be seeking continued support for our efforts, for our particular view of the way these negotiations should go.

We have a lot more to do,

We have unfulfilled commitments on human rights, which the government said they were going to put in place, in terms of democratic rights and cultural matters.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

the big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.

The men and women of 1916 were visionaries. So were the hunger strikers. We need to be visionaries too.

If they don’t talk, they should not walk, … So we would take issue with the Orangemen trying to force themselves into neighborhoods. And if they genuinely wanted to march, if they genuinely were concerned...

I think it is important that when a commission established under an agreement which has its remit in legislation (in both the Irish and UK governments) that when the head of that commission witnesses an...

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

the worst crisis this process has been in,

This is not a day for the hard word, … This is a day for trying to absorb what has happened, giving Ian Paisley the space to absorb it also and put it to the...

This is a watershed. There is an expectation and understanding out there of the importance of this moment.

The decision comes today as a direct result of an initiative taken by the Sinn Fein,

If I didn’t forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment...

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

Everyone needs time to absorb this and particularly unionists need time to absorb this and they need some space,

We want the continued encouragement that he has given to governments and to everyone else in the search for a democratic peace settlement.

The two governments have opted for confrontation. They are engaging in the sterile politics of the blame game without any regard for the consequences.

There is no such thing as the Unionists ever having it on their own terms again, because whatever is worked out here has to be on the basis that it is acceptable to all sections...

War… some people glamorise war and glorify war. It’s not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Yes. Well, I know who they are alleged to be … And I have asked questions just this week as to why these people whose names are, rightly or wrongly, in common currency, why they...

Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going...

Sinn Fein’s position on policing is very clear-cut — when the British government delivers on the commitments it has made, I will deliver on the commitments I have made.

an approach to the Agreement that subverts and ultimately brings about its collapse.

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you’d buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You’re better off...

The document contains elements that are positive

eight good years for Ireland.

man of the year.

want this process to succeed.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

I condemn the bomb attacks in London this morning. I have sent a message of sympathy and solidarity to Mr. Blair and the London mayor, Ken Livingstone. On behalf of Sinn Fein I offer my...

It’s good to be here with your heroes and heroines,

Those who ran those agencies … they hate republicans with a passion. For them the war isn’t over, for them Good Friday (Agreement) was a huge mistake.

isn’t about guns. This is about those who are against change.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile statements, have made it very, very clear that people should not be intimidated.