Quotes by Gerry Adams

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges.

It’s hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

When I wrote ‘Before The Dawn,’ I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can’t talk about simply because I’d put them at risk.

I like to think I’m very grounded. I’m very grounded in my family. I’m very grounded in my community.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It’s not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

We can be revisionist, and that’s a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn’t airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

For good or ill, I’m a person of leadership. I do my best. I don’t dodge responsibility.

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you’d buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You’re better off spending the money on a good novel.

It’s been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.