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"I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team."
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"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"
"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"
"Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration."
"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"
"Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you'll learn to become better."
"To become a better you, keep asking curious questions about yourself. If you lose, ask "why?"; if you win, ask "why not?"
"Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!"
"If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice."
"One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead". Leadership is learnt and practiced!"
"What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record."
"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."
"Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization."
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