I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

Blessed are you who endure life trails.

If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.

If you can love cats, you can love human beings, because you have to be able to love them without getting them at all.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

If we score, we might win. If they never score, we can't lose.

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.