The plane is going to Turkey. But don't tell the refugees. They might refuse to get on.
- Spokeswoman for Skopje International Airport on the Kosovan refugees
We are up against a dictator who has shown he would rather rule over rubble than not rule at all.
- President Bill Clinton on President Milosevic
NATO is dropping everything on Serbia and the Serbs aren't really hitting back. But they are waiting for NATO to come in low and slow.
- Political observer, Belgrade
We simply don't know what is going on. We are pretty much in a state of shock. This is not the sort of thing you expect.
- Jim Stone, father of captured US soldier Staff Sgt Christopher J. Stone
Tony Blair, Robin Cook, William Haig (sic) and wornout actress Vanessa Redgrave.
- Passage from Serbian website naming those they say favour air strikes
Unfortunately Milosevic has not followed the script. He has identified Kosovo as the centre of gravity in the war - not the air campaign.
- General Sir Michael Rose, former commander of the UN in Bosnia
I want to say it once again, Russia is not going to get involved in the conflict unless the Americans push us to that.
- President Boris Yeltsin
We are ready to ask our dear neighbours and citizen Albanians to come back.
- Yugoslav deputy prime minister Vuk Draskovic
The world was very good to us in the wake of our tragedy and we would like to give something back.
- SDLP Omagh town councillor Patrick McDonnell on plans to provide homes for the refugees
Yeah, I'm shy. They say acting is a shy man's revenge.
- Actor Brendan Gleeson
There are some things that I can't remember about her. But I do remember that my mother liked carnations and lilies, so we'll get some of those to put on her grave.
- Helen McKendry, whose mother, Jean McConville, was murdered and secretly disposed of in 1972 by the IRA, which may now reveal where she is buried
I am working on the basis that there is no prospect whatsoever for the IRA to decommission anything as a precondition to Sinn Fein's participation in an executive.
- Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness
People ask us to make gestures. What better gesture than the cessation being disciplined, being maintained and our guns are silent. Maybe Tony Blair should make the same gesture in Serbia.
- Leading Belfast republican Brian Keenan
I see no valid argument, in terms of national interest, as to why we should continue to remain out of line with other European neutrals on PFP, or become more neutral than the neutrals themselves.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, on the NATO-sponsored Partnership for Peace programme
If a NATO flight crossing Austrian air-space were to crash, American rescue teams would have to bring its crew out and the Austrian army would have to try to stop them.
- Der Standard, a Vienna newspaper, on Austria's neutral status
This is just a publicity stunt to try and say they didn't kill my son.
- Neville Lawrence, on a TV interview with the alleged killers of his son, Stephen
I know in my heart the truth. That is all that counts for me.
- David Norris, who denies the murder of Mr Lawrence