An attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable. We do not have the luxury of time. We must prepare and we must act. - Thomas Kean, chair of the US commission on the 9/11 attack
They came at dawn and killed the men.
- A villager in the Darfur region of Sudan, where Arab militia are accused of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing
I happen to think that when a French woman wakes up in the morning she thinks of herself as French just as the Irishman thinks of himself as Irish.
- The Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, who is on his way to Brussels as Irish Commissioner
Charlie is my closest colleague in the Cabinet.
- The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, says Mr McCreevy's departure from domestic politics is not linked to the Government's recent poor performance in the European and local elections
When this well is done, each time somebody takes a drink of water they will say the Americans did something good.
- Rabaa Saleh, from the village of Khazna in Iraq which is benefiting from US reconstruction work
Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president.
- President Bush, at an election rally in Iowa
Whatever mistakes have been made let us rejoice, let us be pleased Iraq has been liberated.
- British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. His remarks echoed Margaret Thatcher's declaration during the Falklands conflict in 1982 that the UK should "rejoice" that the islands were recaptured
As long as I'm here, she's not going to play.
- Bill Timmins, president of the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas, bans singer Linda Ronstadt after she is booed off stage for praising anti-Bush film-maker Michael Moore
If they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger says Democrats in California are obstructing the state budget
Rising affluence means you have more people going to work, more commuting, more stress getting the kids to the creche.
- Gerard O'Neill, chief executive of market research company Amarach, which has found people are no more happy today than in the 1980s despite greater prosperity
I was not aware that my wife had opened this account and when I became aware of it in the 1990s I asked my wife to have the account closed.
- Former EU commissioner Pádraig Flynn says he did not know his wife had lodged a £51,000 political donation he received in an offshore account.
I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans but there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes.
- Prof Stephen Hawking, at a conference in Dublin
Since Arafat and his crowd came back I have come to know the meaning of poverty.
- Majdia Kaskin, a resident of Gaza city amid growing opposition there to Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
It's not just about standing there waving your hands.
- Thomas Murray, a finalist in the Irish air guitar championships
There is only one explanation for the consistent meaning of the word "papa": common ancestry.
- Pierre Bancel, of the Association for the Study of Linguistics and Prehistoric Language in Paris, says the word may have been in man's vocabulary since the dawn of civilisation
I want to deal with women's issues because I don't think they clean behind the fridge enough.
- Godfrey Bloom, an MEP with Britain's UK Independence Party, after taking up his seat on the European Parliament's committee for women's rights. His appointment was later vetoed by women members of the committee