Quotes About Sinn Fein

#1. We are not going into government with Sinn Fein

Ian Paisley

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

Martin McGuinness

#3. I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

Martin McGuinness

#4. In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.

Martin McGuinness

#5. Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

Martin McGuinness

#6. 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.

Peter Hain

#7. We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.

Martin McGuinness

#8. While others have walked away from their responsibilities, the Sinn Fein team will work with the other ministers in partnership to deliver for all the people.

Martin McGuinness

#9. Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process.

Martin McGuinness

#10. The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Martin McGuinness

#11. The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.

Sean Kane

#12. Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect and enhance public services, support those most in need, and to progress Irish Unity.

Martin McGuinness

#13. The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to a reduced rate of corporation tax of 12.5 % by 2018.

Martin McGuinness

#14. Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

Eddie Mair

#15. Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

Jeremy Corbyn

#16. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

#17. Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

Gerry Adams

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

Martin McGuinness

#19. Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

Martin McGuinness

#20. The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

Martin McGuinness

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

Martin McGuinness

#22. I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.

Peter T. King

#23. Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

Gerry Adams

#24. On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission.

Martin McGuinness

#25. Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.

Martin McGuinness

#26. So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission?" asked the expendable.
"The mission didn't fail," said Ram. "It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.

Orson Scott Card

#27. ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.

Elaine St. James

#28. Floating high on the waters of catastrophe

Julien Gracq

#29. There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Thomas Paine

#30. Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

Barbara Mikulski

#31. Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.

David Deida

#33. I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

Julianne Hough

#34. Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Leslie Fiedler