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...

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 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,

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.

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

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.

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.

When the 10 hunger strikers died, there was strong support from Cuba, and especially from President Fidel Castro,

It’s not just a matter of meeting. It’s a matter of engagement, of dialogue, of discussion, of discourse, of listening, and Sinn Fein is in a proactive listening mode.

I think we have succeeded. I say to the unionists, we want to work in partnership with you. Let’s go forward from here and make this work.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,

Now is the time for peace, justice and rebuilding,

committed to making conflict a thing of the past.

A DUP demand for the humiliation of republicans is not only unacceptable, it will not happen and it has no place in a process of peace making.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So...

There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should...

Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development,

Essentially this issue is about the need for the British government to both accept responsibility for what has happened and what is happening and also to end political policing.

The historically important opportunity presented by the IRA cessation of almost two years ago has been frittered away on the back of British policy, … All of that could have been avoided, and that is...

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, … He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in...

another opportunity for Unionists to consider where they want to go from here.

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 about...