Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Your being happy is an incentive to the world.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

I think it's important to do great work.

Janie’s hip buzzes again. Maybe she'll have to have her whole leg amputated, she thinks sadly. That would really suck.

Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.