top of page
.png){kind=small}
"My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me."
Standard
Customized
More
"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team."
Leadership
"There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station."
Power
"It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then."
Hair
"My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me."
Politics
"I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward."
Politics
"That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so."
Leadership
"I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement."
Identity
"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."
Community
"The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn."
Government
"What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic."
Future
bottom of page