By invading Iraq, the President of the United States has gravely undermined the war on terrorism.
- Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism expert
You look good. You are still young.
- Col Muammar Gadafy of Libya greeting Tony Blair
I am not happy to hear that Tony Blair is going out to make nice with Muammar Gadafy, the person who ordered the murder of my son.
- Kathleen Flynn, an American whose son was killed in the Lockerbie bombing
If it's cardiac arrest or an Apache, I prefer to be killed by an Apache.
- Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the new leader of Hamas, says he will not be intimidated by the fate of his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed in an attack by Israeli Apache helicopters
There is no doubt that this was a deliberate assassination attempt.
- British Lance Cpl Steve Dineley says Blaze, his springer spaniel, was targeted by Iraqi guerrillas after sniffing out weapons
I've seen, right from the start, the dangers of falling into the narcissistic pool, because you're lost then, for ever . . . drowned.
- Actress Charlotte Rampling warns of the consequences of cultivating a movie-star ego
An elaborate structure best left to an architecture critic.
- Tycoon Donald Trump's hair (left), as described in the New York Times
It could go sky-high any moment.
- Vladimir Kuroyedov, the Russian naval commander-in-chief, says the nuclear-powered submarine Peter the Great is too dangerous to put to sea
I've never seen Mr Flynn embarrassed about anything.
- Ted Dadley, an English property executive, recalls being asked to make a political contribution by former minister Pádraig Flynn in the late 1980s
You don't get it. My wife is Bono. She is not Larry.
- What Don Burton, wife of Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan, said to the couple's nanny Joy Fahy, according to Ms Fahy who is taking a court action against them
They are put off by the long hours and the office-bound nature of their work. They find teaching more humane and more creative.
- Prof John Coolahan of NUI Maynooth explains why many office workers are turning their backs on high-powered jobs to take up teaching careers.
The shooting at anybody in Ireland is only done to save lives, and that is a fundamental principle of our Constitution and our common law, and it is not going to be abrogated in any way.
- The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, says US secret servicemen will not be granted immunity from prosecution during President Bush's visit to the Republic
At a very basic level our church often presents as less than loving to those who are in some way in conflict with official teaching. I have in mind people in second and irregular unions, people of homosexual orientation, people who feel alienated by teaching on family planning.
- The Bishop of Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh