If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It’s not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.
For good or ill, I’m a person of leadership. I do my best. I don’t dodge responsibility.
We can be revisionist, and that’s a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn’t airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
It’s hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.
It’s been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
I like to think I’m very grounded. I’m very grounded in my family. I’m very grounded in my community.
When I wrote ‘Before The Dawn,’ I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can’t talk about simply because I’d put them at risk.
You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.