Martin McGuinness Quotes (43 Quotes)

I hope when the prime minister(s) come to Armagh on Thursday they have a plan which will see decisive action vis-a-vis the institutions.

If the DUP is unwilling to break out of its negative cycle and begin to show the positive leadership which the political process and also their own community require and deserve, then the two governments need to push ahead with the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement,

Accommodation can only come through dialogue, that's been the lesson of the Irish peace process. There can be no military solution to these types of political problems.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

Our biggest fear is that we are going to go into a vacuum over Christmas and that people that are ill-disposed towards the peace process can use that vacuum to destabilize the entire peace process,

I think we have to be concerned that there are still people within the nationalist and loyalist community who still believe that the way forward is to attack in a consistent basis in order to undermine and destroy all the work that the pro-agreement parties have been involved in.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

seriously undermines the authority of the independent body to deal with this issue.

There is a sense within many people within the city, that the ability of the Saville Tribunal to achieve the full truth is very limited.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

I think it is right that the people of Derry should expect those people who ordered soldiers to come here and kill 14 people and wound 14 more should be accountable before the law.

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

So they now move to plan B and plan B is if you can't blame the people who were killed on the day try to blame Martin McGuinness.

It's hardly likely the IRA would take these enormous initiatives and then move on to do something stupid like attack Denis Donaldson.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

We are more than willing to go into government with the Rev. Ian Paisley and his party, but we are not going into limbo with him.

Sinn Fein is not going to give up on its peace strategy and is going to work for a more effective peace process.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Well, absolutely, it's in ruins. But we are passionately of the opinion that there needs to be a very serious attempt to reconstruct a new peace process.

I am confident that tomorrow will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms. I believe that Ireland stands on the cusp of a truly historic advance and I hope that people across the island will respond positively in the time ahead.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

Instead of grasping this unique opportunity he has chosen to undermine the rule of the IICD by rejecting their determination.

Continuing negative leadership from unionist leaders serves only to further demoralise their own community. Unionist communities deserve better,

time to stop all the stalling and delaying tactics (by Trimble) and move forward to bring the peace settlement.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

I certainly had a sense that this was someone who wanted to be part of change. . . . I think she wanted to make a contribution, and I think she made a very powerful and worthwhile contribution.

Sinn Fein is not going to the negotiating table to strengthen the union -- we are going to the negotiating table to smash the union.

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

bring an end to conflict on this island.

I believe there is a broad spectrum of people who would be interested in a return of the IRA campaign.

We want to see the British government recognizing the rights of all the people in this island, Catholic and Protestant, unionist and nationalist, to self-determination. ... It is quite clear the British government and leaders of unionist parties are afraid to negotiate that.

The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

It is his responsibility to deal with this and we believe that no individual party or government has the right to dictate to the independent body.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Collectively we need to challenge the cancer of sectarianism that is eating away at our society,

We are hoping there can be a democratic settlement and we are very determined to build a new future for all of the children of this island.

The tragedy of all this is that we are seeing within the talks process unionists refusing to negotiate, whilst outside the talks process Catholics are being murdered.

This is a make-your-mind-up year for everyone, not least the two governments. This is the year in which the fate and future of the Good Friday Agreement has to be decided.