Selected quotes of the week
I call on the people to start resisting the invaders instead of killing each other. - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, on trial in Baghdad, making a plea to the Iraqi people from the dock.
We could not have written the results better. - David Hood, of bookmakers William Hill, after punters took a hit at Cheltenham.
The US commander-in-chief can stop here and fraternise with his own troops and we have been asked to leave. It is unacceptable. - Green Party TD John Gormley, one of a number of deputies who had to shorten their protest at the use of Shannon by the US military when airport police asked them to leave.
I think his ego, which can be the downfall of a lot of people, I'd say got him into trouble.- Ben Dunne remembering the property developer Patrick Gallagher, who died this week
I put a notice in the parish newsletter, looking for a sub. I was overwhelmed by the response. There were parishioners saying they had relatives who were retired priests in such and such a place and they would get on to them. - Father Gerry Jennings, who was trying to find a "sub" to look after his church so he could support the Galway champions, Salthill, who are playing in the All-Ireland club final today.
Our teachers are helpless because security is so weak. - Hayat Allah Rafiqi regretting that Taliban insurgents have begun to target Afghan schools.
Milosevic and his family are a disgrace. They ruined our lives and now we are expected to welcome them back. If this government lets Mira and Marko go free, then they are worse than everyone thinks. - Businessman Dragan Djordjevic as the body of former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was flown home.
Our thoughts are with the patient and family, to whom we apologise for this tragic error. - Bob Masterton, executive medical director of NHS Ayrshire and Arran in Scotland, after surgeons removed a man's healthy kidney by mistake.
It invites weirdos, if not dangerous weirdos . . . Celebrities and everybody else have certain basic rights. - Hollywood agent Ken Sunshine criticising the website Gawker Stalker, which allows users to report the location of a celebrity in real time via a text message.
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. - Singer Isaac Hayes - he provided the voice for the character "Chef" - who is quitting the TV show South Park after it mocked the Church of Scientology, of which he is a member.
It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. - Former US Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O'Connor saying that attacks on the judiciary by right-wingers within the Republican Party may threaten US democracy.