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

- David Trimble

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

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

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

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

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

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

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