Martin McGuinness Quotes
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I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. I am not going to be a hypocrite and sit here and say something different.
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I am very sure of the ground I stand on. I am also very sure that it is the path shared by republicans across this island genuinely interested in building a new agreed Ireland: republicans who put Ireland before ego, criminality, and self-gain.
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There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.
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I'm not going to be reduced to the position of being the implementer of Tory cuts in the North.
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Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
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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.
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I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.
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When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.
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I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.
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Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.
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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.
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I will not be silenced or deterred.
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Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process.
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Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.
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I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of the IRA, I obviously engaged in fighting back against the British army.
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I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.
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My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
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While others have walked away from their responsibilities, the Sinn Fein team will work with the other ministers in partnership to deliver for all the people.
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I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.
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The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
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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.
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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.
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I am very proud I was part of the IRA in Derry and involved in repelling the designs of the British state forces against people who were being treated as second- and third-class citizens.
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Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.