In the 1920s, the world ignored the words of Hitler as he explained his intention to build an Aryan superstate in Germany, take revenge on Europe and eradicate the Jews, and the world paid a terrible price. Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them, and the question is, will we listen? US president George Bush likens Islamic fundamentalism to the threat of Nazism and communism.
We very much wanted to get back to a degree of normality, and me going back into my normal employment is very much part of that. Gerry McCann, father of Madeleine McCann, who has returned to his job as a cardiologist in the UK, six months after his daughter's disappearance.
The two main subjects in my mind now are war and the leftovers of war, the ruins and wounds it leaves and how it has created this lost generation. Marwan Reyad of Acrassicauda, Iraq's leading heavy metal band.
A lot of people had to choose between losing one child and losing another one. Liony Batista, an international Christian relief worker, as tropical storm Noel causes chaos in the Dominican Republic.
Russia does not need to invite an army of observers, because the Russian electoral system is one of the most advanced in the world. Igor Borisov, a Russian election official, after the Kremlin announces it is cutting the number of observers for the country's December parliamentary election.
A first killing is like your first love. You never forget it. Alexander Pichushkin, Russia's "Chessboard Killer" . He was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of 48 murders.
It's frightening. Jean-Francois Quarre, a French drugs company official, after touring Chinese factories that make counterfeit drugs. The factories in question are neither certified nor inspected.
I would often have to read an evening Mass in the church as well as another one in a nearby nursing home and then drive to celebrate a neighbourhood Mass, all in one evening. If I only took a mouthful of wine from the chalice at all three Masses I feel that this could put me over the legal limit for driving. Fr Brian D'Arcy worries that priests celebrating Mass could soon find themselves over the limit.
We have not yet achieved any of the demands we asked for. A Burmese monk who returned to the streets on Wednesday to demonstrate.
I'm not here to be political. Model Naomi Campbell, who recently met Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
I don't like to see killers walking free. Isabel Presa, mother of a victim of the 2004 Madrid bombings. Three of the bombing suspects have been convicted but a further seven have gone free.
It is no light thing to say that this risks impugning the provisions of Article 41.3.1, which I will remind the House states that "the State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of marriage, on which the family is founded, and to protect it against attack". Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Brian Lenihan says gay marriage would be in conflict with the Constitution. However, the Government is to give legal recognition to same-sex couples.
We've got to turn the page on George Bush and Dick Cheney. In fact, we have to throw the whole book away. Hillary Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic party nomination for US president.
They're just lonely. Gerry Bunting of Task Community Care says loneliness is responsible for the great majority of calls by elderly people to his organisation's monitored home alarm system.
I've had worse press than a paedophile or a murderer and I've done nothing but charity for the last 20 years. Heather Mills, Paul McCartney's former wife, laments her coverage in the press.