Election speak

Quotes from the campaign trail

Quotes from the campaign trail

"The worst results in the 11+ are in state schools with high levels of free school meals in working-class Protestant areasThose who support academic rejection from unionist parties must ask themselves why they support a system that fails children most in need from within their own community." - Michelle Gildernew, Sinn Féin

"For 40 years, Ian Paisley has played the role of heckler against progress and wrecker-in-chief. He has banged the drum for hatred and shown contempt for democracy, for tolerance and for the ideal of a shared society." - Mark Durkan

"A growing number of people in Northern Ireland are refusing to be labelled as either unionist or nationalist, Protestant or Catholic." - John Lowry, Workers' Party Assembly candidate for West Belfast