Dear liberated Serbia . . . Democracy has happened.
- Opposition leader Dr Vojislav Kostunica, as President Milosevic was swept aside
Milosevic's machine is falling apart like a Balkans Humpty Dumpty, never to be put back together again.
- Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, speaking earlier in the week
I am proud and happy to proclaim that you have presented the best Olympic Games ever.
- Juan Antonio Samaranch, IOC president
I am saying, in no uncertain terms, that other ministers, in the past, including justice ministers, have been stopped and that some of them have certainly been stopped more than once.
- The Minister for Justice, Mr O'Donoghue, on the stopping of his State car by gardai for speeding
Regarding the football replay on Saturday, will the usual taxi service from Cahirciveen operate?
- Mr Pat Rabbitte, Labour
This was premeditated murder of people, shot by snipers.
- The Palestinian Planning Minister, Mr Nabil Sha'ath, on Israeli military action in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
We still believe we had an amnesty but it was not in anyone's interest, either the bank's, customers' or taxpayers', to spend another three or four years fighting it in court.
- AIB chairman Mr Lochlann Quinn after his bank settled its DIRT tax liability for £90.04 million
Don't talk to me about the armed struggle. Don't attempt to justify the indefensible. There was no military or political target in Omagh - you have simply murdered the innocent in cold blood, and to your eternal shame you have murdered women and children.
- Mr Victor Barker, whose son, James Victor Barker, died in the Omagh bomb
The removal of the RUC name appears to say that it was essentially the RUC that was responsible for . . . the poor relationship between the police and the nationalist community. It will be better if the nationalist community can recognise that the truth was much more complex.
- SDLP councillor Mr Declan O'Loan
It's been a long, sad road.
- The Omagh Inquests coroner, Mr John Leckey, at the conclusion of the evidence
It certainly cannot survive in the present circumstances. Its days are numbered. I am certainly talking in terms of months.
- The deputy leader of the UUP, Mr John Taylor, of the Belfast Agreement
More than any other prison, prison camp or prison ship, the story of Long Kesh is inextricably bound up with the events of the past 30 years.
- The Sinn Fein president, Mr Gerry Adams, on the closure of the Maze