Ian Paisley Quotes

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

A federation of factions.

England does not love coalitions.

I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.

The Socialists did not want to work with us, so we created an alliance with the FPO, and we are making good policies of reform for our country.

Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government.

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.