Gerry Adams Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.”

“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.”

“The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.”

“Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.”

“War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.”

“We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.”

“For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.”

“I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.”

“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.”

“The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.”