Martin McGuinness Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

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

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

I would be very surprised if that was the case, in fact I would be shocked.

I am confident that tomorrow will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms,

I am confident that (Monday) will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms,

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

Four Catholics have been shot dead by the loyalists.

I was always confident during the course of this week that Mr. Trimble would win the day.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

covered a lot of ground about the present difficulties.

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.

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

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.

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.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

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

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.

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.

The IRA's decision on July 28th to formally end its armed campaign has changed the political landscape in Ireland forever. 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.

the final chapter on the issue of I.R.A. arms.