The international zone is not safe, it is just safer than the rest of the city. - US army spokesman Lieut Col Christopher Garver after a suicide bomb attack on the Iraqi parliament.
It isn't possible to change this regime through democratic means.
- Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, exiled in London, says he is plotting a coup in Moscow.
We cannot haul 10,000 generations into the laboratory.
- Pope Benedict says evolution is not provable.
This is something we certainly could not contemplate.
- Minister for Health, Mary Harney, says reducing nurses' working hours would mean recruiting an additional 4,000 staff.
He was sort of like nobody else. Kurt was never dull.
- Writer Gore Vidal on the death of author Kurt Vonnegut, (84).
Ireland faces a downturn in prosperity if we do not take firm action and get back to trading successfully.
- Employers' organisation Ibec, warning of the negative consequences of rising inflation rates.
You don't run for second. I don't believe in that.
- Barack Obama is asked whether he would run for vice-president on a Hillary Clinton ticket.
My initial reaction is no [they should not be allowed in]. There may be some humanitarian considerations that could temper that in certain cases, but prima facie - no.
- Australian prime minister John Howard says people diagnosed as HIV-positive should be denied entry to the country as migrants or refugees.
The party wasn't supposed to start until 10 o'clock, but at half nine we saw people pulling up in cars. We didn't recognise them and didn't know what was going on, so we bolted the door - but they just started climbing through the window.
- Rachel Bell (17), who issued an open house party invitation on her MySpace page. Revellers caused over €30,000 worth of damage to her parents' home in Durham.
Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people.
- Dr Traci Mann, a US psychologist who found that most people would be better off not dieting.
It went down pretty well.
- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on snorting a mix of cocaine and his father's ashes. Later, he said it was an April Fools' joke.
I'm really hurt by all the criticism. People think I'm some kind of millionaire now, dining out on lobster and champagne, but I'm not.
- Arthur Batchelor, one of the British sailors released by Iran, on the backlash after he sold his story to a British tabloid.
With great pride, I announce that as of today, our dear country, Iran, is among the countries of the world that produces the industrial level of nuclear fuel.
- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announcing that Tehran's production of nuclear fuel has reached industrial levels.
To find a new direction to go in was liberating. I'm kind of playing with this, and I don't quite trust it yet. It may be a terrible mistake.
- Booker Prize winner John Banville, who has published a crime novel under the pen name Benjamin Black.