Quotes from Martin McGuinness

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.

I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.

I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast. Glentoran were one of the two big Belfast teams, along with Linfield. Any rural team playing them was up against the odds.

We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.

I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.

The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of titles in relation to different regiments in the British army. She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that.

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.

Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.

Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.