Our nuclear work is legal and why should we stop it? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, says he will not buckle under international pressure and suspend the country's controversial programme of uranium enrichment.
If we don't give the energy of the future to the countries of the southern Mediterranean, how will they develop themselves? And if they don't develop, how will we fight terrorism and fanaticism?
French president Nicolas Sarkozy, as France announces it will help Libya develop a nuclear reactor.
The inmates know that they have committed mistakes. Let them enjoy their stay.
Filipino jail manager Byron Garcia who posted online videos of several thousand prisoners re-enacting the video to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Of course kidnapping is a very successful policy, and I order all my mujahideen to kidnap foreigners of any nationality, wherever they may find them.
Taliban military commander Mansour Dadullah following the kidnap of 22 south Korean hostages in Afghanistan.
As Homer would say, 'Woo-hoo!'
Simpsons creator Matt Groening, as the animated show makes its big screen debut.
I have a significant percentage of my own net worth invested in Bank of Ireland stock, so I'm feeling the pain too, I can assure you.
Bank of Ireland chief executive Brian Goggin, whose annual remuneration package is about €4 million, sympathises with investors after the bank's stock dipped in a difficult week for the markets.
We have a unique relationship with Ireland, based on our shared history. Were it to happen, Irish membership of the Commonwealth would provide a new context for that relationship.
Britain's minister for Europe Jim Murphy on the prospects of Ireland rejoining the British commonwealth.
The Goebbels of Scientology.
Thomas Gandow ( 60), chief spokesman on religious cults for the German Protestant Church, describing Tom Cruise, who is in Germany to make a film about an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Conditions were very bad. The roundabout is in a sort of basin and with the horrific rain we've had, they were living knee-deep in mud and sludge, with no sanitation facilities.
Sara Russell, Roma co-ordinator for Pavee Point Travellers' Centre, describing the living conditions of the Roma gypsies who set up camp at a Dublin roundabout before being deported this week.
Even with my luck in the hands of God, I confess I'm afraid. I confess this publicly because I am not embarrassed to say we are afraid.
The president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he is scared of flying a week after the Airbus A320 crash in São Paulo claimed 199 lives.
He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die.
Dr David Dosa, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine about Oscar the cat, who has an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, curling up beside them for their final hours.