I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.

While others have walked away from their responsibilities, the Sinn Fein team will work with the other ministers in partnership to deliver for all the people.

The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.

The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.

There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.

I have huge respect for Nicola Sturgeon and for the SNP.

Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.

The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

I'm still an Irish republican; I absolutely believe in Irish unity and am working to achieve that. But over the course of 15 years or more, people like myself and others have been working to end the vicious cycle of conflict.

We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally.

Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.

In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.

I am very sure of the ground I stand on. I am also very sure that it is the path shared by republicans across this island genuinely interested in building a new agreed Ireland: republicans who put Ireland before ego, criminality, and self-gain.

We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

The march of progress must continue.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.

God is simply love.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

Democrats haven't been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.

Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.