David Trimble Quotes

• En Irlanda del Norte hay dos tradiciones. Hay dos confesiones religiosas principales. Pero sólo hay una verdadera confesión moral. Y quiere la paz.

  David Trimble

  Religious, Peace, Two

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• The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

  David Trimble

  Distance, Dark, Past

  "Peace 1996-2000". Book by Irwin Abrams, 2005.

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• Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

  David Trimble

  Night, Mountain, Attention

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• As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

  David Trimble

  Achievement, Ulster, Proud

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• I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.

  David Trimble

  Real, Party, Leader

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.

  David Trimble

  One Thing, I Can

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• En agosto de 1994 se produjo el alto el fuego del IRA y mucha gente dio por hecho que se había llegado a un acuerdo, lo cual no era cierto.

  David Trimble

  August, People, Ira

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

  David Trimble

  Paisley, Difficult

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

  David Trimble

  Rooms, Ambiguity, Clear

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• The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.

  David Trimble

  Agreement, Years, Movement

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• I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.

  David Trimble

  Party, Shoes, Giving

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• Había leído un primer perfil de [Tony] Blair realizado por Frank Millar en el que decía que Blair era muy partidario del "principio de consentimiento".

  David Trimble

  Principles, Profile, Blair

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• Durante las elecciones al Foro de 1996, mi agente electoral, John Dobson, me dijo que en algún momento íbamos a tener que hablar con el IRA y que yo era el hombre indicado para hacerlo. Y mi reacción no fue de impresión.

  David Trimble

  Men, Ira, Agents

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• There was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which people who had been involved in paramilitary activity could come into the political process.

  David Trimble

  Downing Street, People, Political

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• It seemed to me that John [Taylor] had a good chance of becoming leader: and I was fairly comfortable with that. I respected his judgment. And I also thought to myself that - because I was able to get on with him - I could become his Chief Whip.

  David Trimble

  Leader, Able, Becoming

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.

  David Trimble

  Winter, Two, May

  Fuente: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

  David Trimble

  Mistake, Giving, Decision

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• There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

  David Trimble

  Looks, Gaps, Significant

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