Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adamsis an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dálafor Louth since the 2011 general election...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 October 1948
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
committed conflict
committed to making conflict a thing of the past.
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Well, they haven't been worked out in the last few days. We are dealing with hundreds of years of conflict.
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When the 10 hunger strikers died, there was strong support from Cuba, and especially from President Fidel Castro,
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I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.
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We hope that Mr. Blair will settle Mr. Trimble down and will bring him face-to-face with his responsibilities,
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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.
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have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.
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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.
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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.
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If Bill Clinton was the British prime minister, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in,
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I am confident the commitment made by the IRA will be honored,
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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.
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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.
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People waking up this morning, apart from that very large number of people who suffered grievously in the course of the conflict, I'm sure feel in their bones that we're all better off for this.