You are never going to have to deal with abortion, whether to have an abortion or not . . . You can always walk away. The woman is left there with the child for the next 18 years of her life.
- Fianna Fail delegate Ms Siobhan Kelly, addressing male colleagues at the party's Ogra conference
The Patten report has not been cherrypicked. It has been gutted.
- Prof Clifford Shearing, Patten Commission member
Everyone has to live in the real world, and that includes former members of the Patten Commission.
- The Northern Secretary, Mr Peter Mandelson, of Prof Shearing's remarks
This action is entirely a self-defeating exercise. It will be counterproductive and will not help resolve the situation.
- UUP senior negotiator, Sir Reg Empey, on Sinn Fein's planned legal challenge to David Trimble's ban on its ministers attending North-South ministerial meetings
I think the nation is growing a little weary of this. We're not in a constitutional crisis but the American people are growing weary and whoever wins is having a rapidly diminishing mandate, to say the least.
- Republican senator, Mr John McCain, on the US presidential election
If Tyson wants me to come and take the test, Lennox Lewis will put him to rest.
- Lennox Lewis, British heavyweight boxer
Do I feel like a normal 24-year-old? Sure. My life's a little bit different, but I have a job like anyone else does.
- Tiger Woods, golfer
The blaze spread at a raging speed - like in a fireplace.
- Salzburg governor, Franz Schausberger, on the ski train fire
We have, as a society, failed many on its margins . . . We must not allow homelessness, drug addiction, poverty and the plight of many young people to be viewed as insoluble problems.
- The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Ms de Valera, on what she termed the "disturbing indifference" towards those who had not prospered in the Celtic Tiger economy
It is so sad to lose this woman, the wife of my partner in the peace of the brave, Yitzhak Rabin.
- The Palestinian leader, Mr Yasser Arafat, on the death of Leah Rabin
The teachers are not carrying out their supervision this morning as the class on my left [Fine Gael] is quite unruly.
- Mr Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, in the Dail on Thursday
Yes, sir. Whatever the deputy says, sir.
- Fine Gael leader, Mr Bruton, to Mr Higgins
No sooner had I invited her to join me on the dance floor than the Marine Band broke into a spirited rendition of The Lady Is A Tramp. Only narrowly did we avert an international incident, not to mention a court martial or two.
- Former US president Gerald Ford, recalling Queen Elizabeth's visit to the White House