Pastoral Resources

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.