The world has changed a great deal and our posture must change with it. - President Bush announces one of the largest troop redeployments since the end of the Cold War, bringing home up to 70,000 US soldiers from Europe and the Far East.
Among the various methods we plan to employ is holding barbecues outside the walls of the affected prisons. - A spokesman for Israel's prison service, which aims to break a mass hunger strike by some 1,600 Palestinian inmates.
Gerry Adams has talked about a future without the IRA. But we have had much verbiage and little action. - Nigel Dodds, DUP chief whip.
Time and time again, SIPTU members have shown themselves willing to embrace change in order to protect the airline, but we are not in the process of promoting other agendas. - Michael Halpenny, national industrial secretary of SIPTU, as 2,000 Aer Lingus workers who are members of the union vote for industrial action if management presses ahead with compulsory redundancies under its new business plan.
This injury has been going on for much longer than people knew. I'm upset at having to pull out, but I have to deal with it and feel that I have made the right decision. - World silver-medal race-walker Gillian O'Sullivan withdraws from the Olympics.
Unacceptable in a Third World country. - Mayor of Navan Tommy Reilly, on the condition of the town's public water supply, which has broken down more than a dozen times in the past week.
Why don't they dig me? - Hip-hop star P. Diddy after he is twice booed off the state in Ibiza.
We welcome the initiative of the Pope and call upon on him to intervene to solve the crisis. - The militant Shia cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr accepts a Catholic Church offer to mediate between his forces and US troops in the Iraqi city of Najaf.
We are going to have a "Paddy" limit. We'll be a laughing stock. - Jimmy Quinn of the Irish Road Haulage Association says banning so called "super-trucks" will leave Ireland out of step with the rest of Europe and could harm the economy.
The police told us there was no way in hell they were going to give us a permit. We have to mess it all up ... Poor people have been living with terror every day. - Activist Cheri Honkala, who plans to disrupt the Republican National Convention in New York on August 30th by leading a 5,000-strong illegal protest march.
They wouldn't accept my word that I was still alive. They said that they based their information on official data by the Belgian central administration. - Christina Lauwers, from Antwerp, cannot register her new car because the local authorities insist she is dead.
Like people, they procrastinate when they know they will have to do more work before getting a reward. - Barry Richmond of Washington's Institute of Mental Health, which says it has developed a gene that turns lazy monkeys into workaholics.
"Air-rage" incidents on domestic flights are extremely rare. You hear about them on international flights. - An Aer Arann spokesman after one of its pilots suffers a broken nose in an "air-rage" incident at Dublin Airport.
Starting today Venezuela enters a new phase ... There is no going back. - Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, wins a referendum on whether he should continue in office.
We will not be giving tickets away and we will not be offering discounts. - Olympic games spokesman Michalis Zacharatos as nearly half the tickets for the games remain unsold.