This Week They Said

Men can be killed. Faith and ideas cannot.

Men can be killed. Faith and ideas cannot.

Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shia religious leader, who says he fears for his life in Iraq.

I want to recognise the clear mistake I made before the Spanish people. Eta, with its brutal attack, broke negotiations - it chose the path of terror.

Spain's prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, apologises for putting his faith in the peace process with Basque separatists after a car bombing.

READ MORE

The US believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of co-operation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area.

White House national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe. The US government reacted with alarm after China successfully destroyed a satellite with a ballistic missile, the first space test of such offensive military technology by any nation in more than 20 years.

Whatever about its publicly stated position, it is now clear that the Labour Party is preparing the ground to repeat the con job of 1992 - talking about the need for change and then entering into government with Fianna Fáil.

Tánaiste and PD leader Michael McDowell, says Labour is prepared to form a government with Fianna Fáil.

He said he could not take the pain any longer. I believe my brother was capable of making the decision to come off the ventilator.

Winifred Leonard, sister of Ronald Lindsey, a paralysed man who died after doctors withdrew an artificial ventilator at his own request.

He keeps making empty promises to people in every city he goes. This is causing unhappiness.

Ghaffar Esmaili, a conservative lawmaker in Iran, on the country's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who faces growing unpopularity because of the stagnant economy.

We have to have respect for other cultures and societies in a world of difference. It is all a bit more complex than saying this is just a simple matter of human rights.

Minister for Enterprise and Employment Micheál Martin, defends a trade mission to Saudi Arabia.

The Starbucks was put here six years ago, but back then, we didn't have blogs. This campaign is living proof of the power of the web.

Rui Chenggang, leader of a web campaign against the presence of a Starbucks inside Beijing's Forbidden City.

She is Indian, thinking of an Indian name and only thing I could think of was Indian food. Wasn't racial at all.

Big Brother's Jade Goody, who has been accused of racism after dubbing fellow contest Shilpa Shetty "Shilpa Poppadom".

I could never compare myself to Gandhi and all the other heroes of mine, but I do take inspiration from the way they dealt with the challenges they found.

Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister in waiting, cites Gandhi as an inspiration.

I pay taxes in New York city, and some of that is to maintain decent shelters. And he should take advantage of that.

Karl Kemp, a Manhattan antique store owner who is suing a tramp living on the pavement outside his shop, for $1 million.

The war in Iraq has brought home to us all the limitations and, at times, the utter failure of military intervention as a means to resolve conflict.

Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin.

When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending-forward position like a monkey . . . She was bare-bones skinny.

Sal Lou, reunited with his daughter Rochom Pngieng, who disappeared into the Cambodian jungle 19 years ago, at the age of eight. She is thought to have lived wild ever since.

Hopefully, these lawsuits can spur MySpace into action and prevent this happening to another child somewhere.

Jason Itkin, a lawyer acting on behalf of five families of abused teenagers in the US who are suing the social networking site MySpace, claiming that it did not do enough to protect their children.