This Week They Said

What has caused the terrorist attack today in Turkey is not the President of the United States, is not the alliance between America…

What has caused the terrorist attack today in Turkey is not the President of the United States, is not the alliance between America and Britain - what is responsible for that terrorist attack is terrorism, are the terrorists.British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the bomb attacks in Istanbul.

A scene from hell.

Beyhan Saltan, an office worker caught in the blast.

Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds.

READ MORE

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.

Please send him back to England. Let England decide his future, where he was born and brought up, where his children are and where his parents are. He will get the right judgment here.

Azmat Begg, whose son Mozzam has been held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay for nearly two years, sends a message to President Bush.

Had I been a terrorist intent on assassinating the Queen or George Bush, I could have done so with absolute ease.

Ryan Parry, the Daily Mirror reporter who used fake references to get a job in Buckingham Palace.

We've seen this before - our response is "Here we go again".

Brian Oxman, a lawyer for Michael Jackson, who has been arrested on child abuse allegations.

My administration is committed to free trade. In terms of the steel issue, it is an issue that the Prime Minister has brought up not once, not twice, but three times. It is on his mind. It is also on my mind.

President Bush on the looming steel war between the US and Europe.

I get dressed up like a doll, a nice man puts lipstick on my lips and I say words - it's deeply satisfying.

Actress Julia Roberts.

The Estimates were the most disgusting thing I have seen for many a year. They were really putting up two fingers to people living in the margins and saying we don't give an effing damn about you.

Peter McVerry, campaigner for social justice.

Drink tea with David Trimble? Do they think we're circus clowns? This is an election campaign, not a pantomime.

DUP leader Ian Paisley hits the hustings in the North.

Dublin TDs are paid more than €61 for turning up. Who is watching? Who says a TD is turning up? One can just walk in and walk out without anybody knowing.

Green Party TD Paul Gogarty says deputies receive too many perks.

The sheer numbers are just impossible to accommodate in the country, let alone this area.

David O'Connor, Fingal County Council director of planning services, says plans for a Las Vegas-style entertainment complex in north Dublin are wildly impractical.

Can you imagine Old Trafford on a really wet winter's day? The referee stops the game, goes to the touchline, looks at a video. Technology at that level is out of the question.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.

Who did you think you were? Flash Gordon?

District Court Judge Michael Connellan to a Galway man who ate 50 "magic" mushrooms before donning his motorcycle helmet and lying in a neighbour's front lawn on his duvet.