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
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I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously,
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People can die from the cold and people are certainly deprived because of the cold. I think the people have a right to a warm home.
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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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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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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.
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on their own terms -- through a court, through people being made accountable for their actions.
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If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.
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There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should not be opposed in any way and we made that clear.
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There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,
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Yes. Well, I know who they are alleged to be ... And I have asked questions just this week as to why these people whose names are, rightly or wrongly, in common currency, why they aren't being questioned and why they aren't being charged.
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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.
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There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created.
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War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.
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The people are entitled to know what has been negotiated,