Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

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

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.