Mcguinness Quotes
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We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally.
— Martin McGuinness
I will not be silenced or deterred.
— Martin McGuinness
War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
— Martin McGuinness
There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.
— Martin McGuinness
I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.
— Martin McGuinness
That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
— Martin McGuinness
Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.
— Martin McGuinness
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.
— Martin McGuinness
Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.
— Martin McGuinness
I have huge respect for Nicola Sturgeon and for the SNP.
— Martin McGuinness
The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
— Martin McGuinness
The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
— Martin McGuinness
In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.
— Martin McGuinness
Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
— Martin McGuinness
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
— Martin McGuinness
I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.
— Martin McGuinness
I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.
— Martin McGuinness
All I can do is to try and make the future better.
— Martin McGuinness
I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.
— Martin McGuinness
I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.
— Martin McGuinness
The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.
— Martin McGuinness
Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.
— Martin McGuinness
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.
— Martin McGuinness
The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
— Martin McGuinness
Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.
— Kate McGuinness
My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
— Martin McGuinness
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
— Martin McGuinness
I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.
— Martin McGuinness
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.
— Martin McGuinness
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
— Martin McGuinness
As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
— Martin McGuinness
A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.
— Martin McGuinness
My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.
— Martin McGuinness
As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.
— Martin McGuinness
I don't cheer when people lose their lives.
— Martin McGuinness
It is amazing that you now have a bus company in Ballymena producing world class buses for Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Las Vegas.
— Martin McGuinness
Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
— Martin McGuinness
In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.
— Martin McGuinness
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.
— Martin McGuinness
I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.
— Martin McGuinness
I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.
— Martin McGuinness
Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.
— Martin McGuinness
I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.
— Martin McGuinness
I'm not going to be reduced to the position of being the implementer of Tory cuts in the North.
— Martin McGuinness
I don't know what caused my tinnitus, but I started to become aware of a very low ringing noise in my right ear, which is now constantly there.
— Martin McGuinness
I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.
— Martin McGuinness
You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
— Martin McGuinness
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
— Martin McGuinness
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
— Van Morrison
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
— Martin McGuinness
There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.
— Martin McGuinness
You know the old joke: with communism the future is certain, it's just the past that keeps changing?
— Patrick McGuinness
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
— Martin McGuinness
I believe a united Ireland is inevitable. I have never put a date on it.
— Martin McGuinness
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
— Martin McGuinness
Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
— Martin McGuinness
I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.
— Martin McGuinness