This is a significant step in taking the gun out of Irish politics, ... Now it's up to the other paramilitary groups.

[As Frazer hurled more accusations at Reid, among them that the Catholic community had] butchered Protestants, ... You're in the same category as the Nazis, as far as I'm concerned.

The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews.

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

The key issue now is to get a police force that everyone accepts,

I am absolutely certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that all the arms of the IRA have been decommissioned, ... I know them well enough to know that they don't play games.