Death by murder is like a double death. There is a will behind it. You say to yourself that somewhere on earth is the person who did it, that there is a devil somewhere in the hills of southern Ireland.
- Daniel Toscan du Plantier, breaking his silence 13 months after his wife, Sophie, was murdered in west Cork
If republicans do not come out and deny these claims and state they are totally untrue and unfounded within a 12hour period, the LVF will unleash on (sic) an unholy war against the nationalist community.
- LVF statement on reported RUC suggestions that the family of Billy Wright, the paramilitary leader shot dead in the Maze, is under "a republican death threat"
The last thing we want is another Widgery. Last week Tony Blair buried Widgery's conclusions and they are now lying six-foot under beside him wherever he is lying.
- John Kelly of the Bloody Sunday Campaign on Mr Blair's announcement last week of a new judicial inquiry
Before Blair tries to suck up to the IRA by apologising for Bloody Sunday, shouldn't the IRA apologise for the Bloody Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday they have inflicted on the people of this country?
- Tory Peer Lord Tebbitt
It is a society in which poison runs through people's veins. I don't know how to cope with that any more.
- Ulster Unionist member of Derry City Council, Alder- man Andrew Davidson, who fled the city following a death threat
I am not suggesting that we will go to Bermuda for a week.
- Northern Secretary Mo Mowlam, on speculation about moving the multi-party talks to a location outside Britain and Ireland
He is acting too noisily there. One must be more careful in this world saturated with all sorts of weapons which are sometimes in terrorists' hands. It's all very dangerous.
- President Yeltsin criticising President Clinton's Iraq strategy
Has the Taoiseach noted the dire warning from the President of Russia that an attack by the United States on Iraq could result in a world war? What steps is he or the Minister for Foreign Affairs taking, through the EU, to persuade the US to continue to seek every possible diplomatic resolution?
- The DL leader, Proinsias De Rossa, in the Dail
I suppose Democratic Left will be supporting the Russians in the world war.
- Austin Deasy (FG)
You're talking about a man who's served the Army loyally for 35 years. They're saying that after 35 years he decided to disobey an order.
- Anthony Byrne, whose father, Comdt Tony Byrne, was found guilty by a court martial of disobeying an order during a social function in Lebanon
Having always had a particular dislike for paedophiles, few charges could be more revolting to me than to be classed as one.
- British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who has denied allegations of paedophilia in his adopted home of Sri Lanka
I am going to be thinking about certainly what it's like in heaven. I am going to be thinking about my family and my friends and the pain.
- Murderer Karla Faye Tucker in her last interview before execution
I have full sympathy for the families of the victims of murder and other crimes, but I do not accept that one death justifies another.
- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, on the Tucker execution