This is a marvelous group of women.

I have given, as have many others, our entire lives — whatever people think about us, we’ve given our entire lives to this struggle, and for republicans — and they are rogue republicans, they are...

For good or ill, I’m a person of leadership. I do my best. I don’t dodge responsibility.

I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with...

If Bill Clinton was the British prime minister, we wouldn’t be in the fix we’re in,

Regrettably a small, unrepresentative group chose to ignore our appeal. Their actions were entirely wrong and reprehensible.

Today, I am delighted that the Nobel prize has gone to Ireland. I hope today’s announcement will act as a catalyst to the next part of the peace process.

One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.

This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,

There is no basis for such a motion and David Trimble knows that.

It’s been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

He has built a career on frightening people and on crisis,

I understand fully that the IRA’s most recent positive contribution to the peace process was in the context of a comprehensive agreement.

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.