A selection of this week's quotes from around the world.
I am not presiding over a tribunal of inquiry. I am in Coalition Government with another party.
- Tánaiste Mary Harney.
It is now clear the abolition of fees has done nothing to widen access to college.
- UCD president Dr Art Cosgrove.
I don't want a reality check. It's not every week you win the Ryder Cup.
- Golfer Paul McGinley.
A president against a president, vice-president against a vice-president, and a minister against a minister.
- Iraqi vice-president Yassin Ramadan suggests George Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their differences by fighting a duel.
It reminds us of some dark days in Europe.
- Israeli journalist Arik Bender, who was told he wasn't welcome at a Kerry holiday home because of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
I would like to say today to the people of the land I have loved so well - keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.
- Former US president Bill Clinton's advice to leaders in the North, addressing the British Labour party conference.
Stand up, look the public in the eye, tell them where we are and tell them what we are going to do about it, and stop relying on spin because we are all getting dizzy - over both the economy and the Nice referendum.
- John McGuinness, Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, offers advice to the Cabinet.
It seemed to me I would feel an awful lot better if I wasn't keeping other people's secrets any longer.
- Edwina Curry on why she went public over her affair with John Major.
I am rich beyond my wildest dreams.
- Pop star Robbie Williams signs a record-breaking €127 million deal with the EMI label.
The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead and buried.
- Labour finance spokesman Brendan Howlin after the Government admits it will have to borrow to meet budget deficits.
Every Taoiseach is entitled to make their own choice.
- Albert Reynolds on Bertie Ahern, who appointed Ray Burke to Cabinet after Mr Reynolds told him he thought Mr Burke was corrupt.
The enormous power of modern technology is penetrating the mysteries of an ancient disease, a disease that continues to kill millions.
- Dr Carlos Morel, of the World Health Organisation, as scientists come close to discovering a cure for malaria.
Our strategy is simple. We aim to put the bad guys in prison and take away their money.
- US deputy attorney general Larry Thompson after a former chief financial officer of Enron is charged with fraud.
The average teen band has a life expectancy of just three years, 10 months.
- Pop impresario Louis Walsh.
The argument rationalising higher inflation here, based on our transition to a more modern economy, is not tenable.
- Tom O'Connell, head of economic analysis and research at the Central Bank.
This was the most practical way of getting there in time.
- An aid to Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, who spent £260 on a taxi to take him from the Labour conference in Blackpool to his London home.