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.

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.

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.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.

All movements go too far.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.