Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

- Gerry Adams

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you con…

- Gerry Adams

Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast …

- Gerry Adams

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend …

- Gerry Adams

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in eve…

- Gerry Adams

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

- Gerry Adams

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

- Gerry Adams

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

- Gerry Adams

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

- Gerry Adams