Ulster Unionists talk about the need to jump together, but I cannot jump far with Mr Trimble on my back.
- Gerry Adams after Stormont talks with the UUP leader
We'd rather she was buried here. It's a beautiful area. It beats being under the foundations of someone's house. We were told she was buried in west Belfast.
-Seamus McKendry, son-in-law of IRA murder victim Jean McConville, as gardai dug up the car-park at Templetown beach, near Carlingford, Co Louth, where she is believed to be buried
The IRA leadership approached this issue in good faith, but their investigation was hampered by the length of time, changes of leadership and the deaths of members and former members of the IRA.
- IRA statement claiming it had no further information on the locations of the bodies of the "disappeared"
This is not really a tribunal. They are putting us on trial. It is some sort of political expediency.
- Former Lieut Col Derek Wilford, commander of the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday, who has refused to at- tend an inquiry into the 1972 killings unless his men are granted anonymity
There has been no deal. These terms were actually on offer right from the very beginning and there has been no negotiating away of the essential demands.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair after President Milosevic formally accepted the EU-Russian peace terms
What we are going to be looking for is implementation, implementation and implementation .
- James Rubin, US State Department spokesman, on the deal
I call him Robin the Greater. He's 60 but looks 50. He has the most beautiful body I've ever been to bed with. He's quite a contrast with my ex.
- Margaret Cook, former wife of the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, of her boyfriend Robin Howie
It certainly made no sense to us that one sport should have this privilege and the rest of us should be ignored.
- Lord Archer, president of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, on snooker's exemption from the ban on tobacco sponsorship
He's got very big feet. What does that mean?
- Thebo Mbeki, successor to Melson Mandela, asked about stepping into Mr Mandela's shoes
If I could run again, I would.
- President Bill Clinton
He lived and died for it . . He was only interested in the Army ever since he was a child . . . He wasn't interested in football or anything else.
- Bill Kedian, father of Pte William Kedian, the Irish soldier who died in Lebanon on Monday
The greatest hope of my life was to move from the role of freedom fighter to peacemaker.
- Abdullah Ocalan, Kurdish rebel leader, on trial in Turkey for treason
I think the decision not to allow the game to go ahead is the right one. At no stage did we seek to have the game called off on political grounds, but we consider the Government made the correct move.
- FAI chief executive, Bernard O'Byrne, after the Government refused visas to the Yugoslav team
Women tell me that quite a lot of them enjoy snooker and have a particular affinity for studying the backsides of some of the world's famous snooker players.
- Austin Deasy (FG) during a Dail debate on legislation to stop some events being included in a pay-per-view basis for TV