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Martin McGuinness Quotes

In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.

Martin McGuinness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 23, 1950

Topics

View Inevitable More United Ireland

I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.

Respect Time Be Kind Friends You

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

Looking Inspiration Jewish Up Those

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Tough Process Down Creating Letters

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

Political Want Band Just Ever Dudes

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

People Saying Think Thinking Friends

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

Organization Looking Think Forest Up

Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.

Theatre Political You Real Things

One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.

Things Happen Sometimes Right Reason

It is always a good feeling to score the first goal in a new stadium.

Good Feeling Goal New First Always

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.

Family Bond Husband Attention Create

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Robert T. Bakker

Mind Reading Thinking Fish You Stop

Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn't mean racism has disappeared. It's all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.

Work Racism Process Never Mean

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