I do hope that what we have done will now once and for all solve the chronic taxi service problems in Dublin. As people apply for licences the industry will grow and the service to the public will become a reliable one and there will be taxis when they are required.
- Minister of State, Mr Robert Molloy, announcing full deregulation of the taxi industry
It's good to see democracy at its finest. There's no violence out there. It's a free country and everyone has a right to protest.
- Mr Richard Moldanado, from California, speaking at Dublin Airport about the blockading taxi-drivers
After living in Liverpool where you can get a taxi any time, it's a complete nightmare here. It's not just a weekend problem, you can't get taxis during the week . . . Deregulation would be fantastic.
- Mr Mike Hoban, who recently moved to Dublin
Would anyone else accept it if the Minister said "We are going to halve your wages and bring in twice as many people to do your job"?
- Taxi-driver Mr Vincent Conway
In the name of Ulster's honoured dead, the majority of unionists and the anguished bereaved, I indict you. This day I say: David Trimble, in God's name go before you bring any more sacrifice, sorrow and shame to the people of this province.
- The Rev Ian Paisley, DUP leader
I regret very much having to make this action. But clearly the behaviour of David Trimble is discriminating against both the Health Minister and myself.
- The North's Minister of Education, Mr Martin McGuinness, of his legal challenge to Mr David Trimble's veto on North-South Ministerial Council meetings
Aren't you a little bit concerned that you might go down in history as the Prime Minister who destroyed the most effective police force in the world, the RUC, and undermined the most successful defence alliance of all time, NATO?
- Tory MP Nicholas Winterton, to Tony Blair
The years of animosity are past.
- President Clinton, during his visit to Vietnam
I'd marry her myself, but my wife won't let me.
- Kirk Douglas, talking about Catherine Zeta Jones, his new daughter-in-law
In almost all endeavours, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors of machines.
- The Supreme Court of Florida
Some . . . say to us: "Why don't you move out" and, not surprisingly, we regard this as very insensitive.
- Mr Simad Saheed, of the Maldives, on the threat the group of islands is facing from rising sea levels
Is it not the case that the Minister for Finance is being politically chaperoned on the Budget, because of the unnecessary errors he made the last time?
- The Fine Gael leader, Mr John Bruton
I have suffered greatly at the hands of the establishment, but justice, which has been absent for so long, has been achieved here today.
- Mr Frank Shortt, a Co Donegal nightclub owner who spent three years in jail for allegedly allowing drugs to be sold on his premises, after winning his appeal at the Court of Criminal Appeal
I don't like shaking hands with people because, you know, where do they come from?
- Donald Trump
An endless number of castings and screen tests were done with me. Then they decided that they wanted someone with - how do you say it? - a more ethnic background.
- Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, on why she was not chosen for the film Charlie's Angels
I want to make certain that I have some plants to talk to in the future.
- The Prince of Wales, opening the Millennium Seed Bank, Sussex