As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.

We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!

I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.