Everyone needs time to absorb this and particularly unionists need time to absorb this and they need some space, |
everyone to stay calm |
Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development, |
from what has been achieved. |
give peace a chance |
have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided. |
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. |
He has built a career on frightening people and on crisis, |
Here you see (Trimble) walking out of incomplete talks last week, orchestrating a campaign of mass intimidation and all that went with it, and then he walks back into the talks this morning. |
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. |
I am confident the commitment made by the IRA will be honored, |
I condemn the bomb attacks in London this morning. I have sent a message of sympathy and solidarity to Mr. Blair and the London mayor, Ken Livingstone. On behalf of Sinn Fein I offer my sincere condolences to the victims and the families of those killed and injured and to the people of London. |
I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in all of this process. |
I don't blame the people in the airports for that. I've raised it directly with the White House and the State Department. They have not told us we're on the terrorist watch list. If we are, surely we shouldn't be. |
I don't have any high regard for Mitchell Reiss' input in this process. If it is he who is advising the president, then it's very, very bad advice. |