The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
President George W. Bush, in his inauguration address
The remarks that the Sinn Féin leadership had prior knowledge of this are wrong. They are deeply offensive and insulting, they affect the relationship between us and his Government. We are looking to the Taoiseach to explain his position to us.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams as the rift between his party and the Government over the Northern Bank robbery continues to widen
There can be no budge and no fudge on the issue of criminality.
Sinn Féin and the IRA have to make it very clear that, from now on, there can be no exiling, no robberies, no kidnappings, no punishment beatings.
The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell
This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign.
An anonymous former US intelligence officer is quoted by the New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh as saying that the Bush administration has special forces on the ground in Iran, scouting for air-strike targets
If they would like to continue launching war against the Muslim world, I don't think this would do any good to the American image and the American cause.
Dr Mohammed Hossein Adeli, Iranian ambassador to the UK, fears the US may be contemplating a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities
As a veteran, and the daughter of a veteran who died in service, I don't appreciate being disenfranchised from what I always considered my rights and freedoms.
Bonnie McKinney, a Washington resident, complains about the security fences and barriers being erected in advance of this week's presidential inauguration
At Loughlinstown you come out of a 50-mile zone to a 30-mile zone and back into a 50-mile zone, and it is ridiculous.
As the State switches to metric speed limits, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr Roche, says some limits defy logic
I predict he will get more things done on women and faculty issues because he's a straight-talking, no-baloney president.
Richard Freeman, the organiser of a science conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, defends Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, who has suggested that women have less "innate ability" at science and maths than men
I'm looking for a sentence here today so I can get off drugs.
I thought you [ the judge] might give me three or six months and I would appreciate it if you do.
Eddie Sherlock of Ballybough, Dublin, asks a judge to send him to jail, claiming he wants to give up drugs. Sherlock pleaded guilty to a breach of the peace
The time is now ripe for the Catholic Church to revisit its teaching on birth control.
Father Sean McDonagh, a Columban missionary, argues that couples should have no more than three children because of the threat of overpopulation facing the world