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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.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

War ... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

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 will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

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.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

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

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.