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John Major is a warmonger in our society. John Major is the person who sabotaged the peace process. We would be into negotiations otherwise.

Mitchel McLaughlin, Irish Times, Thursday 4 April.

 
We will march to our place of worship. We will not surrender, not an inch to Dublin and not to Popery.

Ian Paisley at loyalist rally in Portadown, Irish News, Saturday 5 April.

 
Alan, a cabbie of 30 years, believes John Major made two big mistakes: ``Allowing 400,000 people to lose their homes to the building societies and then, when the IRA called a truce, not sitting around the table with them.

A London cabbie on John Major's biggest mistakes, the Observer, Sunday 6 April.

 
A weird paradox was the consenus of opinion in the car-claiming queues [at Aintree on Sunday] that, had the bombers for the last quarter of a century stuck soley to this tactic of maximum disruption without injury or loss of life, the UK's stoicism and its economy in general would be so rattled as to have caused it to sue for peace many a long year ago.

Frank Keating, the Guardian, Monday 7 Monday.

 
Things don't look too good for us in Mid-Ulster.

Unnamed SDLP source, the Guardian, Monday 7 April.

 
I would call on all those involved to desist immediately. It has absolutely no bearing on the political difficulties and it will make no contribution to resolving them.

Mitchel McLaughlin on those responsible for the burning of Protestant church property, Irish Times, Tuesday 8 April.

 
Well, we're not dealing with friends, we're dealing with enemies, and it is true that the history of the Labour Party in the Six Counties is a very bad one, but it is also true that the history of the Conservative Party is very bad.

Sinn Féin candidate Gerry Kelly at a press conference, Tuesday 8 April.

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