On the other hand if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern followed by the Palestinian peace process.

But if republicans are to prevail if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and as we develop the peace process we continue to use examples from South Africa.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are in my judgment ripe today to restart the peace process.

I say that to my colleagues by the way in the internal Cabinet meetings I say 'Look I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process I want a peace result.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes but due to one side giving up.

The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line no final deadline no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process the work of many decisions.

My constant prayer my number one foreign goal is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature but result from the social process which creates man.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Reading is more of a left-brain process and listening to music is a right-brain function.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me because it's a good earned feeling now.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh let's put that sentence there let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?