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
island manage people task throughout voted
I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.
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We have to be prepared, ... to reach out the hand of friendship to the British and the Unionists on the basis of equality.
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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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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
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In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
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Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
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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.
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
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There has been quite a lot of progress made and I think we will continue to make progress,
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We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,
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Everybody in there is waiting on David Trimble.
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Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development,
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At some point, when stretched so far, you break. We are not made of elastic.
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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.