87 Quotes by David Trimble

Now winter is here and there is still no sign of spring.

No doubt it (the car bomb), like the murder of Billy Wright in the Maze prison, is intended to destabilize the situation by provoking a reaction ... I hope people will not allow themselves, as they have been, to be provoked into reacting.

If they (IRA) put their weapons completely and verifiably beyond use, then we'll all be delighted,

He has got to create confidence ... in Northern Ireland that the law will be observed and will be enforced, and when republicans are found to be behaving in a way that is contrary to their undertakings, that he will act.

had not been seen in the talks before.

Whatever decisions are taken, there is no place for violence and riot and the incidents that we have seen over the last few days,

The people that we really need the answers from are the Republican movement and what they've got to do is they have got to tell us what they are going to do.

It is not just a question of a symbolic action with regard to handing in some weapons,

Our proposal to him, expressed very strongly indeed, is that that is the course he should follow,