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John Hume

"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."

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"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."

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"I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all."

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"Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be."

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"The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice."

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"It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it."

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"Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them."

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"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."

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"The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads."

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"Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party."

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"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."

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"The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on."

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John Hume
"In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system."

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John Hume
"I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely."

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John Hume
"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments."

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John Hume
"In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side."

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John Hume
"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

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John Hume
"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

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John Hume
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."

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John Hume
"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."

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John Hume
"When people are divided, the only solution is agreement."

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John Hume
"Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control."

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