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.

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

Smile at people, pop your head into your boss’s office regularly and say hello, and come to your first meeting with something really smart to say.

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

I think we think in terms of stories.

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.