Gerry Adams Peace Quotations

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

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

If you are asking me if the peace process can work if our party is expelled, no.

Today, I am delighted that the Nobel prize has gone to Ireland. I hope today's announcement will act as a catalyst to the next part of the peace process.

Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going to Cuba, but I think they will accept and understand it.

We have a range of candidates who are bedded in their local constituencies over quite a long period of time, who are working on a whole range of social and economic issues as well as the big national question, as well as the peace process, as well as the whole issue of Irish unity -- so we're going to do well,

The peace process lies in absolute ruins, ... And the responsibility for that -- and for restoring it -- lies with (British Prime Minister) John Major.

Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development,

save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation.

The White House has decided not to invite the Irish parties to the White House; that would be a disappointment. But do I interpret this as a movement by this administration away from the peace process? No, I don't. I don't. And if I did, I would be very very perturbed,

The IRA initiative is clearly a serious attempt to address the suspicions and the fears of those unionists who want to make progress, ... Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development.

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.