"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."

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"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."

Government

"In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view."

Death

"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."

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"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."

Government

"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland."

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"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."

People

"But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership."

Leadership

"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."

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"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move."

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"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."

Car