Gerry Adams

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

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

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

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

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. ”

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. ”

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

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full. ”

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief. ”

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works. ”