Martin McGuinness Quotes

• Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

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• The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn’t going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

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• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

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• The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

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• That’s healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

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• Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

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• Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

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• Let’s leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

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• Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

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• Let everyone leave all the guns – British guns and Irish guns – outside the door.

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• In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

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• If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

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• I haven’t done anything that I’m ashamed of.

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• But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

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• Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

  Martin McGuinness

Martin McGuinness (15)

Birth:	23rd May, 1950
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician

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