Ian Paisley Quotes
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I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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The way that it is to be implemented is that those that use or threaten violence are excluded and prisoners will be kept in unless violence is given up for good.
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Entrance to government cannot be dependent on a date but only when terror and crime carried out by those allied to a political party is gone forever.
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This is a battle that has to be won -- no ifs, no buts!
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'Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow'.
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There is a finger pointing tonight at IRA-Sinn Fein.
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
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'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'
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'I say to the Dublin government, Mr Faulkner says it's 'hands across the border to Dublin'. I say, if they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border!'
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'People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?'
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A foreign government has more say over Northern Ireland than the people of Northern Ireland.
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Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.
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....were appointed by the IRA, not the governments.
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Take it from me that your condemnation and further exhortation to the leaders of IRA/Sinn Fein is useless in the present drastic and tragic circumstances of Northern Ireland. When are you going to take action?
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There was no agreement between us, there is a great gulf because the southern government still thinks the IRA should be there and by right should be taking part in these discussions and by right should be in any future government of Northern Ireland.
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I would rather be British than just.
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It was amazing that I was ever elected.
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A man (whom) the IRA were happy to do the job.
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I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
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We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.
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It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
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The North can be a deceptive place; it is not a done deal.