During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and …

- David Trimble

The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.

- David Trimble

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

- David Trimble

I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to hav…

- David Trimble

There was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which peop…

- David Trimble

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next…

- David Trimble

We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.

- David Trimble

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

- David Trimble

I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeti…

- David Trimble