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Gerry Adams Quotes

born 1948 Ireland

Gerard "Gerry" Adams, MLA, MP (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh, born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician and former president of Sinn Féin.

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The only complaint I have heard from nationalists or anti-unionists is that he was not shot 40 years ago.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I have no involvement in terrorist activity.

There haven't been any attacks by the IRA on Protestants.

That ageing geriatric whizz-kid seems intent on starting World War III.

The Brighton bombing was an inevitable result of the British presence in this country. Far from being a blow against democracy it was a blow for democracy.

I was a released internee; I was off the run. One of the reasons I had been chosen to be on the republican delegation for the talks was because I wasn't a wanted man... I played very little part in the meeting myself.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerry Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.