Do not doubt: we have the authority to do this, the responsibility to do this and the means and the will.
- US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, warning that any attack on Iraq would be "substantial"
Tony Blair, this little valet of the White House, is a liar and impostor [because] all he does is claim that Iraq possesses chemical weapons capable of annihilating the entire world.
- Radio Baghdad
It is extraordinary how even the most loving and kindly and good of parents can also become the prime educators of their children in the ways of hate. Irish educators have to be acutely aware of the need to instill the principles of respect and mutual tolerance in our children.
- The President, Mrs McAleese, addressing a human rights education conference in Dublin
Contrary to speculation surrounding recent killings in Belfast, the IRA cessation of military operations remains intact.
- IRA statement
The people of Northern Ireland do not need an IRA admission. They know the IRA is guilty.
- The DUP deputy leader, Peter Robinson, on the two recent killings
The RUC are unacceptable to the nationalist people in any guise. They cannot be reformed. They need to be replaced.
- Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, on new British government proposals on police accountability
He has enough problems of his own to sort out in the States without coming to interfere in our affairs.
- Deputy mayor of Belfast, Ulster Unionist Jim Rodgers, on reports that President Clinton may visit the North in May
There will never be another Enoch. He was magnetic.
- Lady Thatcher, on Enoch Powell, a former Conservative minister whose "rivers of blood" speech against immigration from Britain's former colonies ended his chances of high political office, who died aged 85
Nationalism is an important prerequisite for the progress of a nation. But blind adherence to nationalism as propagated by Mr Powell is a dangerous thing.
- Tara Mukherjee, of the Confederation of Indian Organisations UK
Why should the Oireachtas be relegated to a slot for drunks and insomniacs by RTE?
- Pat Rabbitte (DL), on Oireachtas Report which is now scheduled for 2.30 a.m.
It is for insomniacs.
- Ms Mary O'Rourke (FF), on the above
President Clinton is praised as a man of integrity when he manages to keep his trousers on long enough to say hello to Cherie Blair.
- Tory peer Lord Tebbit
We are pushing animals and plants beyond their natural limit. You cannot mess with nature and expect to get away with it indefinitely.
- Best-selling cookery writer, Darina Allen, on moves to expand Irish trials on genetically-modified crops
This inquiry is fatally flawed. It can't compel witnesses to attend. It can't requisition documents, and, adding insult to injury, it has appointed a member of the IASA, a member of a swimming club, a man who is known personally to many of the people involved. It casts grave doubt about the effectiveness of this investigation.
- Fine Gael's sports and tourism spokesman, Bernard Allen, on Dr Roderick Murphy SC, the barrister appointed to investigate the Irish Amateur Swimming Association following the O'Rourke scandal
I believe in my heart 99.9 per cent that it was not an accident. That car didn't accidentally crash. There was a conspiracy.
- Harrods owner, Mohammed al-Fayed, on the Paris car crash which killed Diana and his son, Dodi