I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

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.

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

It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.