David Trimble



William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (15 October 1944 – 25 July 2022) was a Northern Irish politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, and the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005.

Quotes

 * 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 in: Peace 1996-2000, World Scientific, 2005, p. 114


 * One of the great curses of this world is the human rights industry. They justify terrorist acts and end up being complicit in the murder of innocent victims.
 * Human Rights' Other Face : http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/10rajiv.htm: 10 March 2004, Rediff.com. . Quoted in S. Balakrishna, Seventy years of secularism. 2018.