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

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

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

don't want to regret than don't forget to enjoy

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

"That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.