The Journey (III) (2016)

Colm Meaney: Martin McGuinness

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Quotes 

• Martin McGuinness : Politics is a long game, Rory. You have to stay the course. Everything we want, we will get. Maybe not today or tomorrow, it may take another thirty years... believe you me, I would not talk to that old bastard if I didn't think we were going to get there.

• Martin McGuinness : Just give me the phone, will you? Extend the olive branch.

  Ian Paisley : Well, I'd imagine you'd be more familiar with Special Branch.

• Martin McGuinness : We will fight them on the beaches, so we will.

  Ian Paisley : I had a dream, so I had.

• Martin McGuinness : When did you realize who he was?

  Ian Paisley : From the moment he opened his mouth.

  Martin McGuinness : How did you know?

  Ian Paisley : Because I'm not naive. And also because he claimed never to have heard of me. Everyone's heard of me.

• Ian Paisley : I despise everything you have done, so I do.

  [They firmly shake hands] 

  Martin McGuinness : I despise everything you stand for, so I do.

• Martin McGuinness : We are on the verge of something the wider world will applaud, but our own people will hate.

• Martin McGuinness : Our protocols dictate that senior figures of opposing parties must fly together. It lessens the chance of either side firing a ground to air missile or...

• Ian Paisley : [Introducing McGuinness to their driver]  And this is Martin McGuinness, former chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army.

  Martin McGuinness : Allegedly.

• Jack : I always thought the IRA was led by that guy with a beard and a pipe, you know? So where do you fit in?

  Martin McGuinness : You might call me... the acceptable public face.

  Ian Paisley : [noisily clears his throat] 

• Martin McGuinness : So, fifty years married? You get less for murder.

• Ian Paisley : Mr McGuinness, I haven't been to the pictures since 1973.

  Martin McGuinness : Seriously? What did you go to see?

  Ian Paisley : I didn't see anything. I was protesting outside.

  Martin McGuinness : 1973? What would have got your goat in 1973?

• Martin McGuinness : I don't mean the final solution. I mean *a* final solution.

• Martin McGuinness : If you don't mind me asking, you don't dance... and you don't drink... so, how did you meet her?

  Ian Paisley : It was the Titanic.

  Martin McGuinness : How old *are* you?

• Martin McGuinness : That, eh, deer... that was an accident?

  Jack : We have highly trained wildlife.

• Martin McGuinness : If big Ian doesn't say yes now, we are just pissing in the wind.

• Martin McGuinness : So what's your position on the great Samuel L. Jackson? Would you shake his hand if we stopped to pick him up?

  Ian Paisley : *Andrew* Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. Was a Presbyterian of good old stock. I would shake his hand. I have absolutely no idea who Samuel L. Jackson is.

• Martin McGuinness : You have no reason to trust me, and I have no reason to trust you, but we need a leap of faith. And you are all about faith. If you follow your logic, if God has put you here with me, he either means to kiss me or to kill me. And thou shan't kill!

• Martin McGuinness : I apologize for nothing.

  Ian Paisley : That's a true politician. Never apologize.