Don't raise your hand, raise the phone.
- Joe Kelly, co-ordinator of FirstContact, the State's first helpline for male perpetrators of domestic violence
I can't even get to the shop.
- Theresa McAteer of Transport for All on the lack of public transport for disabled people
I can't explain what happened. I just cut them. I didn't realise what I was doing.
- Heroin user Robert Hughes who got four years for pulling off the toe and fingernails of a four-year-old girl
Charlie always had the uncomplicated belief that the greater good was served by him getting what he wanted.
- Journalist Terry Keane on Charles J. Haughey
Anyone who has studied Ireland knows it's just a fact. To the Irish, drinking and driving is not a big deal.
- Florida lawyer John Stemberger defending the children of a woman killed in a drink-driving accident
I'm for any lineal descendant to be able to be buried at Monticello, black, white, or purple. We're not racists. We're snobs.
- Theresa Shackleford, white descendant of American founding father Thomas Jefferson, on moves to accept Jefferson's family by black slave Sally Hemings into the fold
Kosovo is Serbia and Serbia is Kosovo. That is the way it is going to stay, no matter what happens.
- Nebojsa Vujovic, spokesman for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
This is a First World country with a Third World infrastructure.
- FG leader John Bruton on traffic chaos
No guns, no government.
- UUP leader and First Minister David Trimble
Over the next month, Mr Trimble will decide whether to apply the handbrake to the political process or to place his sturdy foot on the accelerator.
- Editorial in the Belfast News Letter
It remains the Government's firm position that there is no need for a referendum [on Partnership for Peace]. No other country, not even Switzerland, has had a referendum - and they have one most weekends.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern
Nobody can be prevented from attending worship of Almighty God, Orangemen or anyone else
- Rev John Pickering, rector of Drumcree, on the Church of Ireland Synod motion calling for good behaviour at Drumcree
In the Drumcree crisis to date nothing has illustrated quite so well the abdication of responsibility by those most charged with it in the Church of Ireland.
- Irish Times report on the General Synod
You obviously practise megaphone diplomacy. Will you stop shouting? It is very disturbing to many of us up here who are trying to rest.
- Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn to Tory MP Quentin Davies during all-night Commons sitting
The settlement, looking at it in the harsh light of today, or indeed any time, was the worst of all settlements.
- Dr Michael Smurfit on AIB's settlement with Charles Haughey over his £1 million debt
Wouldn't it be great if there was a pile of money in it?
- Volunteer for the Kildare Kosovo Refugee Aid Group be- fore finding £12,000 in the pocket of a donated jacket
As you can see I haven't died. The DUP and its leader don't run away.
- The Rev Ian Paisley after a three-day stint in hospital
You can't maintain a state-of-the art economy on the basis of sticking plaster services.
- IMPACT president Bill Gallagher on the provision of public services
In 99 per cent of cases where you see "adult" you can substitute "for not very adult men only".
- Letter to The Irish Times on the display of so-called "adult" magazines in news agents