Martin McGuinness Zitate auf Englisch

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War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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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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I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

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I believe a united Ireland is inevitable. I have never put a date on it.

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Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

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I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.

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Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.

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Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

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There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

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Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

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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.

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I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.

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I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.

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As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

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I carry out my full duties as Deputy First Minister and accept I have tinnitus but appreciate the hearing that I do have and that it does not limit me in a professional or personal capacity.

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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.

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We all have a responsibility to advance the process of reconciliation, and as a political leader, I am committed to leading from the front and to continue to take bold and significant steps.

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Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.

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There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

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There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.

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I will not be silenced or deterred.

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When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.

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