We want to do business with Ian Paisley. We would be quite
pleased to vote for Ian Paisley as First Minister.
Gerry Adams
September 17 2004, Irish Independent. |
I almost hugged David Trimble.
Gerry Adams
August 8 2002, Belfast Telegraph. |
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about
enormous trees ... I've hugged trees in the White House and
in the garden of 10 Downing Street - and I've hugged trees in
every part of this little island.
Gerry Adams
July 4 2001, Belfast Telegraph. |
We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
Gerry Adams
After UK General Election June 2001. |
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
Gerry Adams |
I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops
in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth
year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact
with British troops than they had previously.
Gerry Adams |
They haven't gone away you know.
Gerry Adams
About the IRA. Adams was addressing a demonstration
in Belfast in August 1995, when a member of crowd called out
to him to "bring back the IRA". In an unscripted reply
Adams made this remark. |
Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of
resistance in the six counties against a government whose presence
is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people.
Gerry Adams
Sinn Fein Ard Fheis 1986. |