This Week They Said

Anyone who talks to Sinn Féin will be out of my party. DUP leader Ian Paisley.

Anyone who talks to Sinn Féin will be out of my party.DUP leader Ian Paisley.

The price that any party who wants to have a devolved government must pay is the Good Friday Agreement. There is no better way forward.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.

If you came around here at night-time, you wouldn't hear a sinner.

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A neighbour of Thomas Farrell, fatally stabbed at his home in Cherry Orchard, Dublin.

I was just looking for a warm meal somewhere.

President Bush shares Thanksgiving with troops in Iraq.

Fundamentally wrong and socially destructive.

Dr John Barton, a consultant physician at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, on the Hanly report on health services reform.

I hope that the CAB action against Mr Burke ... will send out a strong message that anyone holding public office involved in corrupt or illegal actions will be called to account.

Labour TD Joe Costello as the Criminal Assets Bureau seeks €2 million in unpaid tax from former Minister Ray Burke.

He was mad. He hammered you with a leather strap and nobody was safe with him.

A victim of Maurice Tobin, the Christian Brother jailed for the abuse of boys at Letterfrack Industrial School in Galway.

Luxury chocolates are an obscenity.

The Taoiseach after being quizzed in the Dáil over a €100,000 bill for food and drink served on the Government jet.

Our motto: Anything but Bush.

Singer Lou Reid says artists have an obligation to campaign against the Bush administration.

The report is so vague that it is frightening. If I were to announce plans to build a space station employing 100,000 people, the plans would be just as realistic.

Fingal councillor Clare Daly as a proposal for a Las Vegas style entertainment park in north Dublin is rejected by the county council.

Six years ago we saw a lot of handbag snatches. Now it seems once they've got the purse or phone or whatever, they see an opportunity to give a good kicking.

Anne Meade of Victim Support says criminals are becoming more violent.

If anybody doesn't think, based upon what's happened so far, that the true motivation of these allegations is anything but money, then they're living in their own Neverland.

Mark Geragos, lawyer for Michael Jackson, who faces child-abuse allegations.

Europeans are still in the dream world of welfare, long vacations, guaranteed high pensions and cradle-to-grave social security.

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic.

Theatre humbles you: acting is never something you can master. Bad acting is just around the corner.

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I don't believe in Jesus, I don't believe in God. But Dylan's the closest thing to it.

A fan at the singer's concert in Brixton Academy, London.