The new strategy is not going to yield immediate results. It's going to take a while. President Bush warns Americans not to expect instant success as he announces a "surge" of 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.
Twenty thousand soldiers will never be able to achieve what 140,000 have failed to achieve so far, and the fate of the new soldiers will not be any better than for those who were here before them.
Abu Moath, an insurgent with the Islamic and Nationalist Front for the Liberation of Iraq.
We had the lorries ready, the boat was coming in to land the fish after a quick trip out to get herring, and one of the crewmen's partners had the dinner on.
Michael Walsh, owner of fishing trawler Père Charles, feared lost as it returned to shore at Dunmore East, Co Waterford.
Soccer is huge all around the world except in America and that's where I want to make a difference with the kids.
David Beckham, who is to swap Real Madrid for Los Angeles Galaxy.
A singing poet? It just bores me to tears.
Bob Dylan would flunk on American Idol, says judge Simon Cowell.
We will not, in Fianna Fáil, enter into coalition discussions or a pact with Sinn Féin.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says Fianna Fáil would not form a minority administration supported by Sinn Féin.
People are now so terrified they won't come out for a drink. What are people supposed to do for a night out? It's like a Taliban regime.
Pat Gill, of Darby O'Gills pub, Killarney, decries "morning after" breathalyser testing.
We watched as all these blindfolded men were hung up and some were shot in the head.
Baghdad resident Imad Atwan as dozens of Shia Muslims are hanged in retaliation for Saddam Hussein's execution.
If we refuse any human being the entitlement to equality, we deny ourselves proper equality. It is either for everyone or for no one.
David Ervine, the Progressive Unionist Party leader, who died this week.
There's a lot of bull being peddled, mainly by a couple of environmental nutters, that aviation is the cause of global warming, climate change and everything else.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary.
You talk about the economy, you talk about roads, you talk about the war, the NHS - there's a kind of glazed look and out come politics speak. You talk about poverty and interest flicks and they talk about what they can do.
Bob Geldof, receiving an honorary degree in Newcastle, says Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are leading the fight against global poverty.
I come from a family that endured the Holocaust. I simply cannot laugh when Hitler and the Holocaust are made the subject of a comedy.
Dieter Graumann, deputy leader of Germany's Central Council of Jews, on the release there of a controversial comedy about the Nazi leader.
The PSNI and the Security Service will be completely distinct and entirely separate bodies.
Policing in the North will not become entwined with MI5, Tony Blair assures Sinn Féin.
The iPod changed everything in 2001. And we're going to do it again with the iPhone in 2007.
Steve Jobs, unveiling Apple's latest gadget, a mobile phone/iPod hybrid.
The risk is a wider war. Because of the underlying tensions, we are transferring from a 'cold war' into a 'hot war'.
Dr Ali Ansari, an Iran specialist, says America's toughening stance against Tehran amounts to a "declaration of war".