Should the Messiah come tonight, I won't have to go back.
- Reformed alcoholic Alistair McKinnon on pilgrimage from Scotland to Jerusalem to mark the dawn of the new millennium
Circumstances have changed since I first called you. . . I need to withdraw my concession until the situation is clear.
- Al Gore to George Bush
You don't have to get snippy about it.
- Bush's (reported) response
The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said.
- President Bill Clinton
The death of a man after a long illness should never provoke joy, but I can't say the news made me sad.
- Former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir reacts to death of President Assad of Syria
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy. They think because they are white, they have a divine right to our resources. Not here. Never again.
- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, addressing cheering supporters of his ruling ZANU-PF party in December
. . .this gangster.
- Former prime minister Ian Smith on Mr Mugabe
I am writing blind. It's 13.15. All personnel from sections six, seven and eight have moved to section nine. There are 23 people here. We have made the decision because none of us can escape.
- Last words of Dmitry Kolesnikov, one of 118 sailors who died when the Russian submarine Kursk sank on August 12th
It's the first time I've swum 50 metres. . . It's further than I thought.
- Paula Barila Bolopa from Equatorial Guinea, who in Sydney swam the slowest race in Olympic history