We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
When I came in, I said I had hoped... that we would have a good meeting, and we had, ... I put it to Mr. Trimble that he and I had been cast in this position and we had to narrow the gap. We had to try (to find) ways of me helping him and him helping me.
make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.
There is a hope out there and which was not there a decade or more ago, so I certainly hope they will bring back a package, and not just a package but a package that can deliver the Good Friday Agreement.
I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.
We came here for a working day to get answers, from the two governments ... around the restoration of the institutions, around the implementation of the Good Friday agreement.
There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,
The full implementation of the Good Friday agreement holds out vast hope of securing an end to injustice and the inequalities and conflict which have troubled Ireland and our people for generations.
It means that Unionists who are for the Good Friday Agreement must end their ambivalence, ... And it is a direct challenge to the DUP to decide if they want to put the past behind them and make peace with the rest of the people of this island.
There was good work done today. Let's continue to do good work.
We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,
We will be there for one reason and one reason only: the election of a government in line with the Good Friday agreement.
It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines,
It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines. South Africa has been a beacon for freedom-loving nations, and what you have here is not only about the past but also about the future.