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.

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.

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.

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

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air. You own my soul, Ella May. Micha

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement.