If you bomb our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity. We will bomb Tel Aviv. - Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah delivers an ultimatum to Israel.
No sentient human being could fail to be moved by the suffering and death. It's terrible. - British prime minister Tony Blair comments on the war in the Middle East.
Well, did you guys ever get tired of foreigners telling you you must be either very brave or just stupid to continue living in Ireland during the bombings you suffered? - Sylvia, an Israeli citizen, when asked what it is like to live in a state at war.
Shia and Sunni are going to have to love their children more than they hate each other. - Gen Peter Pace, chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, urges warring factions in Iraq to pull back from the brink.
I cannot invent good news because that wouldn't be ethical. And if the news were bad, the only one to benefit is the enemy. - Fidel Castro is giving nothing away about his state of health.
Oh yeah. He's like your president. - American heiress Paris Hilton, asked her opinion of Tony Blair by a British magazine.
People have to decide within the Gaelic sporting fraternity: are they a sporting organisation or are they a quasi-political organisation? It's very clear the direction they appear to be going in in the past few weeks. - Gregory Campbell of the DUP criticises the mooted use of Casement Park in Belfast for a hunger-strike commemoration.
The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. - From Mel Gibson's now infamous tirade.
It will probably take me longer to get to my home in Dublin than it would take to get back to India. - Shibashis Duttachoudhury, stranded at Dublin airport during this week's taxi strike.
Countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim, the advantage of life over death. - Polish president Lech Kaczynski, urging EU member states to restore the death penalty.
The chance of living in the Gulag as a prisoner is attractive to many wealthy foreigners. - Igor Shpektor, the mayor of Vorkuta, 100 miles (161 km) above the Arctic Circle. The Russian town is offering holidaymakers the opportunity to stay in an elaborate mock-up of one of Stalin's infamous slave camps.
If you're offended, you're not listening. - US comedian Doug Stanhope, who caused controversy at the recent Cat Laughs comedy festival in Kilkenny with jokes about sexual abuse.
She should be excommunicated. To crucify herself in the city of popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility. - Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, a senior Vatican figure, condemns Madonna, who is "crucified" in her new show, visiting Rome this week.
They are liars and we have proved that they are liars. - Former Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan, who yesterday won his defamation action against the News of the World over allegations he cheated on his wife and took part in orgies.
The whole business thing is predicated a lot on the tax laws. It's why we rehearse in Canada and not in the US. A lot of our astute moves have been basically keeping up with tax laws: where we go, where not to put it, whether to sit on it or not. - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who are notoriously averse to paying tax.