Gerry Adams Quotes

Ireland, Politician
October 6, 1948

Gerard Adams is an Irish republican politician who was the Leader of the Sinn Féin political party between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and has been a Teachta Dála for Louth since the 2011 general election. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Member of Parliament of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Gerry Adams
- Humiliation
- Transparency
If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

Gerry Adams
- Situation
- Response
- Armed

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

Gerry Adams
- War
- Peace
- Making
Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges.

Gerry Adams
- Water
- Charges
- Go Up
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams
- Freedom
- Families
- Defence
It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

Gerry Adams
- Right
- Kill
- Necessary
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Gerry Adams
- Change
- Battle
- Maintain
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

Gerry Adams
- Peace
- Price
- Exclusion

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Gerry Adams
- Kind
- Grief
- Worst
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

Gerry Adams