This Week They Said

No negotiation is possible or desirable with these assassins.

No negotiation is possible or desirable with these assassins.

José María Aznar, the Spanish Prime Minister, after at least 199 were killed in bomb attacks in Madrid.

The train was cut open like a can of tuna. We've never seen anything like it. We didn't know who to treat first.

Enrique Sanchez, an ambulance assistant, who was one of the first on the scene after the blasts.

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Are we the scapegoats?

Sean Daly, master of the Coombe Hospital, Dublin, worries that senior doctors may be held responsible for Government moves to discourage non-nationals from coming to the Republic to give birth.

The Irish Government is actively considering the exclusion of Sinn Féin from the political process in the North as an option. It is actively considering going back to the old agenda, the failed policies and attitudes of the past.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.

You people make the so-and-so Mafia look like monks.

What builder Tom Gilmartin told a man who he claims approached him shortly after he had meet then Taoiseach Charles Haughey in 1989, demanding he deposit £5 million in an offshore account. Mr Gilmartin was giving evidence to the Mahon tribunal this week.

Housing and health are issues which affect both nationals and ethnic minorities here, and I think we have much in common.

Nigerian-born accountant Paul Osikoya, who is to stand in the local elections in Galway.

I must say, throughout this case and others I'm aware of in Ireland, I find, and it greatly concerns me, a lack of appreciation for the level of danger these officers are in.

Frederick Lanceley, formerly of the FBI, in evidence to the Barr tribunal, which is investigating Abbeylara siege.

It smacks of totalitarianism.

Dublin County Board chief executive John Costello as the GAA bans discussion of the Rule 42 prohibition on playing soccer and rugby in its stadiums from the agenda of its forthcoming congress.

Not everyone got everything they wanted in this law - that's the way of democracy.

Iraq's US governor Paul Bremer as the country's governing council signs an interim constitution.

I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush.

Ron Willett, from Missouri, whose son was killed in the September 11th attacks, reacts to the president's re-election ads which feature wreckage from the World Trade Centre.

They'll be off touring the world and I'll be at home with the babies.

Bryan McFadden leaves Westlife.

Even homeless people need somewhere to have sex.

A sign put up by a couple who made love on a bed in a square in downtown Stockholm.

The message is really simple: 'Just say no' doesn't work in the long term.

Peter Bearman, co-author of a Columbia University survey which found that American teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until they are married have the same STD rates as those who don't.