Quotes by Danny Morrison

“It was a big win for us. We wanted a quick start to put them away early.”

“He was affable, humorous, unassuming, intelligent. He didnt lead a lavish lifestyle - I doubt if he even owned his own house. He didnt drink too much. He didnt gamble. He didnt drive a flashy car. His wife never wore fur.”

“There had to be a moment when he was compromised. He would have had to make a choice between living with the consequences of what they were going to expose about him or deciding to enter into a pact with people who had inflicted so much suffering on his own community, his friends, himself.”

“In the early days [the 1920s] individual IRA commanders used to sign statements. Im fairly sure that the name S ONeill was used in Belfast in the 1940s, but I dont think we know the exact provenance of P ONeill.”

“He had to make up his mind: fleeing into the arms of his handlers or throwing himself on the mercy of the Republican community.”

“If were sitting here at this time next year with the same record, we are in a BCS game. The program is positioned well for that.”