At the end of 1966 there were losses of around 10,000 in Vietnam. At the tail of the war they lost about 100 soldiers a day. You have to put it in perspective. - Capt Lennol Absher, from the US 1st Cavalry Division, as the American military death toll in Iraq reaches 1,000
As for launching strikes, we will carry out all measures to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world. - Gen Yuri Baluevsky, chief of Russia's general staff, warns that the Kremlin will step up its own "war on terror" after Beslan
There are many Chechens all over the world and they talk freely about how dissatisfied they are with Putin's policies. To Putin, that makes them international terrorists. - Akhmed Zakayev, Chechen rebel envoy in London
It is . . . a case of a crucial witness setting out deliberately to mislead the tribunal in the hope and expectation that the inquiry would prove inconclusive or would produce erroneous findings. - Judge Alan Mahon, explaining why the tribunal into planning corruption won't pay the legal expenses of former minister Ray Burke
We are seeing the sort of activity you would have in an American corporation deciding to slim down. That's not how theatre should work. - Writer Gerard Stembridge as Abbey Theatre artistic director Ben Barnes survives a no-confidence motion. Last week it was announced that Abbey staff would have to be reduced by a third
Each time there is an event like this, we are always the victims. My message to the terrorists is don't go around killing the poor. Our lives are hard enough. - Arif Yunianto, a security guard who narrowly escaped the car-bomb explosion outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta
There is total destruction. Buildings are flattened. We're going to have to rebuild completely. - Basil Rahming, Bahama Island police superintendent, says Hurricane Frances has left much of the country in ruins
There is no tension with anyone . . . We are on a question of fairness. We want to have a fair society. - The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, says a move to emphasise Fianna Fáil's commitment to social justice has not damaged its relationship with its Coalition partner, the PDs.
We may not have signed him back in 1958 but it's never too late to correct a mistake. - A spokesman for Decca Records, which is to release Cliff Richard's new album, having turned him down 46 years ago
What's hard about it is the pressure. We don't have a second chance. - Cliff Fleming, a Hollywood stunt pilot, on his unsuccessful mission to snatch the Genesis spacecraft out of the sky above Utah by snagging its chute with a hook
He was telling me he doesn't think he will get into Heaven. I am thinking, if you are not going to Heaven, then I'm screwed. - Actress Charlize Theron recalls a conversation with Nelson Mandela
It was like Bonnie and Clyde. It was unbelievable. It is an absolute farce. - Tom Hodkin, who was arrested at gunpoint in Britain for driving a battery-powered cart for the disabled on a pavement
Every day \ a celebrity meeting, a press conference, a TV interview. He's a hero. I haven't had time to discuss his training schedule. He's too busy enjoying himself. - Jos Hermens, the agent of Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima, who finished third in the Olympics Marathon after being attacked by a former priest from Ireland
More than three billion people are on less than $2 a day, and yet the subsidies which every cow inside the EU receives or the farmer receives for them is more than that - $2.20 a day. - Julian Filochowski, former director of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, at a conference in Ireland