This violent man will never murder again. - President Bush on the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
[ This] judgment gives a green light to all kidnappers and murderers in Iraq to continue their terrible deeds. Both the British and Iraqi governments should hang their head in shame. - The family of Margaret Hassan, the Irish aid worker killed by kidnappers in Iraq, after one man is jailed but another two are acquitted in connection with her death.
I think history will be kinder to them. - Dr Daire Keogh, St Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, who is writing a history of the Christian Brothers, suggests that, in the long term, the Brothers will be remembered for their contribution to Irish education rather than for abuse scandals involving members of the order. It has been reported that Christian Brothers are to end their involvement with teaching.
Why should he not be allowed to sit the exam in his own school? If he was in jail, he would be allowed to sit the exams. - Pamela Carroll, whose son Enda was not allowed sit a Junior Certificate exam because his cropped hair contravened school rules.
I've known you since 1989, and I'm telling you, this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time. - John Bolton, Washington's envoy to the United Nations has strong words for the organisation's deputy secretary general, Mark Malloch Brown, who accused the US of exploiting the UN while permitting it to be disparaged at home.
We may never know what really happened on that riverbank on that fateful afternoon on Sunday last, but we can be fairly certain that Ita, David and Emma reached out to each other in an act of love. - Fr Muiris O'Connor at the funeral Mass for Ita Noonan and her children, David and Emma, who drowned together in north Cork.
Over the last couple of years, we have had quite a few complaints from some women about the vulgar outfits. - Catherine MacNeill, a spokeswoman for the women's mini marathon in Dublin, says increasing numbers of men are entering the race dressed in lurid drag costumes.
Corporal punishment . . . was standard practice in primary and secondary schools for much of the 20th century. - Fr Michael Hughes, librarian and archivist of the Oblate Order, which has accepted responsibility for "excessive" physical abuse at Daingean boy's reformatory in Offaly.
A four- to six-year-old bus would be regarded as a very young bus in the school transport system in Ireland or internationally. - A spokesman for Bus Éireann, which is buying 100 second-hand school buses.
I don't have any illusions whatsoever that the people behind this are hoping that I will be killed. - Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin chief negotiator, responding to reports that he was a British agent.
I don't know why they did not want to stop to help. I hope when I am there, in that state, and someone passes me . . . I hope it is someone like me. - David Mazur, an American climbing guide who rescued an Australian mountaineer on the slopes of Everest, recalls how an Italian expedition refused to come to his aid, pretending they could not speak English.
The most important audience is here. And particularly 'round where we made the film in Cork. They seem to think that it is true to the facts. And if the people who know most about it think it's okay, then it really is okay. - British director Ken Loach, on his War of Independence movie, The Wind that Shakes the Barley.