Gerry Adams
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"Gerard "Gerry" Adams" is an Irish people/Irish Irish republicanism/republican politician, president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth (Dáil Éireann constituency)/Louth since the Irish general election, 2011/2011 general election.

From UK general election, 1983/1983 to UK general election, 1992/1992 and from UK general election, 1997/1997 to Belfast West by-election, 2011/2011, he was an Abstentionism/abstentionist Parliament of the United Kingdom/Westminster Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)/Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)/Belfast West.

He has been the president of Sinn Féin since 1983. Since that time the party has become the fourth-largest party in the Republic of Ireland, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland and the largest Irish nationalist party in that region. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by several gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) including John Gregg (UDA)/John Gregg. From the late 1980s onwards, Adams was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then-Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish government/Irish and Her Majesty's Government/British governments.

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Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in all of this process.

We are in this particular situation because once again unionists threaten the institutions and Dr. Reid moved to accommodate them.

Yes. Well, I know who they are alleged to be ... And I have asked questions just this week as to why these people whose names are, rightly or wrongly, in common currency, why they aren't being questioned and why they aren't being charged.

The big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.

There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile statements, have made it very, very clear that people should not be intimidated.

To bring about change in this situation, it needs to be driven. Mr. Trimble is a learner-driver, and cannot be left in the driving seat. Mr. Blair has to drive the change forward on every issue that has been mapped out. ...