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

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

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

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

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

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

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

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

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.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

When we are confident, all we need is a little support.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Reader, I literally married him.

When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

When I think of the energy I wasted hating you...

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.