All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland,

I am willing to take risks, and willing to tolerate failure as long as we admit it, can learn from it and keep moving forward.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

There was no real disagreement as to subsistence, ... It was essential that the treaty be upheld in full, that there was no question whatever of going against any provision of the treaty, and in particular that Mr. Duisenberg having made it clear that he did not desire to serve the full term of eight years, that the decision as to when he goes is his and his decision alone.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.