“Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.”

—  Ian Paisley

To Jeremy Hanley, who had introduced himself to Paisley saying "How do you do? I did not realise that you were on our side."http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1990-11-07/Debate-2.html

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Politician and former church minister 1926–2014

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