Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
Robert Peel 1833
Category: Northern Ireland
Is it not a fact that the weapon in the armoury of the iRA is capital punishment?
Reverend Ian Paisley 17/12/1990
Category: Capital Punishment, IRA Terrorism, Northern Ireland
What the wise men promised hasn't happened and what all the damned fools said would happen, has happened.
Lord Melbourne 1829
On Catholic emancipation.
Category: Catholicism, Northern Ireland
On behalf of the people of Ulster I brand you a traitor and a liar.
Reverend Ian Paisley 22/02/1987
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Northern Ireland
Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.
Enoch Powell 11/01/1981
Category: Northern Ireland
I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life.
Reverend Ian Paisley 1969
Category: Northern Ireland
I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Ann Widdecombe 2000
The then Shadow Home Secretary on being mistaken for Mo Mowlam
Category: Alcohol & Drinking, Northern Ireland
We had a couple of hours with him on Monday and he was honest enough to admit he didn't know what we were talking about.
John Taylor MP (UUP)
On a meeting of UUP MPs with Northern Ireland Secretary, Dr John Reid
Category: Northern Ireland
I plan to be workmanlike. My view is that this is more about moving the peace process forward than moving the profile of John Reid higher.
Dr John Reid
Category: Northern Ireland
They have voted to take the gun out of politics.
Mo Mowlam 1998
After the Norther Irish people vote for the peace accord
Category: Northern Ireland
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume
Category: Northern Ireland
Now is not the time for sound-bites. I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder.
Tony Blair
On signing the Anglo Irish Agreement
Category: Northern Ireland
