A day does not go by when I don't reflect upon the events of that night. If it were possible, I would do anything to turn the clock back. - Dermot Laide, who walked free after the collapse of his retrial for the manslaughter of Brian Murphy at Club Anabel in Dublin.
When you are talking about fighting terrorism or extremism, I'm not doing that for the US or Britain. I'm doing it for Pakistan. It's not a question of being a poodle. I'm nobody's poodle. - Gen Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says he is not a US lapdog.
There has been substantial erosion in the IRA's capacity to return to a military campaign without a significant period of build-up, which in any event we do not believe that they have any intentions of doing. - The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) concludes the IRA is shunning significant criminality.
If there's a pre-election binge, it will be inflationary. - The ESRI's senior research officer, Dr Alan Barrett (below), suggests it would be unwise for the Government to embark on a preelection public spending spree.
It is not a question of increased public spending or tax cuts. You can have both. - PD leader Mary Harney makes a preelection pledge to cut taxes without reducing public services.
The use of condoms in particular situations can constitute a lesser evil. - Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the retired archbishop of Milan, backs calls for the Vatican to condone the use of condoms by people with Aids.
Call it reverse pick-pocketing. - Magician David Copperfield, who used sleight of hand to convince muggers his pockets were empty.
Ethanol, hydrogen, electricity - it is going to take 20 or 30 years for them to have a major impact, and consumers need help today. - David Friedman, research director of the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists, says alternative energies will not avert an oil crisis.
The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy. - Tyler Drumheller, once the highestranking CIA officer in Europe, says the White House deliberately ignored intelligence showing there were no weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
To bring harmony into a household of seven wives takes some doing. It stretches you and enlarges your heart. - Rabbi Philip Sharp, from Brighton in the UK, who has seven wives - one, he says, for each day of the week. Because none of the marriages have been ratified in a civil union, he is not guilty of bigamy.
I can't discuss the judgment, but I don't see why a judgment should not be a matter of fun. - Justice Peter Smith, the London high court judge who put a secret code in his judgment of the Da Vinci Code copyright trial.
Everyone in Ireland drinks and drives. - What a Russian motorist told a garda after he was arrested for being over the limit behind the wheel, a court heard this week.
The Americans should know that if they assault Iran their interests will be harmed anywhere in the world that is possible. - Iran will strike back at US interests if it launches a pre-emptive attack, according to the supreme leader of the country, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.