David Trimble Quotes
It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.
Godson, Dean. Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism. HarperCollins, 2004.
The Republican Party at the time was in the midst of a takover by Donald Trump, the nativists and teh Tea Party. Their world view and their view of the proper role the U. S. in teh word, was almost diametically opposite to that of the Republican Party of the previous 120 years and still held by many of the elected Republican Office holders where only a few would express their real view for fear of a primary election challange from the right or losing the support of the Trump voters which might lead to their defeat by Democrats.
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC, is a Northern Irish politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, and the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005. He was also the Member of Parliament for Upper Bann from 1990 to 2005 and the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2007. In 2006, he was made a life peer in the House of Lords and a year later left the UUP to join the Conservative Party.
