A look back at the week's events in the words of those who made the news.
I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.
The editor of an Arabic newspaper based in London, who this week received a fax of a letter allegedly written by Saddam Hussein, dated April 28th, urging Iraqis to resist.
The concept was to remove the head - the regime - from Basra, preserve that which connected the head to the body, and then keep the vital organs intact by maintaining the blood supply - power, water and fuel - tie the arms of the regime behind its back and expand the vital organs to the limbs to allow the civilian population to stand on its own feet.
Brig Graham Binns, commander of the British 7th Armoured Brigade, on how Basra was seen as a human body - Bertie Basra - during the Allied assault.
The American nation has a history of not wanting other people's real estate.
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, says Washington will leave Iraq as soon as possible.
We are reaping the consequences of the most wrong-headed economic policies since Herbert Hoover.
US Senator Hillary Clinton says President Bush has no real plan to end the nation's financial woes.
I was enraged when I saw that strange character from Dublin coming again to see us.
DUP leader Ian Paisley launches an attack on the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen.
Political contests are not beauty contests.
Mr Cowen.
The IRA leadership is determined that there will be no activities which will undermine in any way the peace process and the Good Friday agreement.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.
I'm irrelevant. Is Aretha Franklin relevant? Is any artist?
Pop star Madonna.
We are most sympathetic, and not apathetic, to the unfortunate situation in which they find themselves.
Niall Dennehy, Clonmel Borough Council, which said it does not want to host the Special Olympics team from Hong Kong, where more than 100 people have died from SARS.
People can take measures to prevent diseases being spread, but not pets.
Chinese officials say pets of SARS victims will be captured and killed.
There has been enough confusion already and a sense that people in authority don't know exactly what is going on.
Joe Barry, a public health doctor, questions the Government's response to SARS.
The tribunal concept needs to be totally dismantled. It has been put to work where it was not intended.
Former Supreme Court judge Hugh O'Flaherty.
When elections start you try to get some funds from somewhere to run the election. I wouldn't care if I got a cheque from the Orange Order. I would take it and say thank you. Getting elected means that much to me.
Senator Don Lydon in evidence to the Flood tribunal.
They've got all day out there on a tractor, and they think this up and spring it on you.
The mayor of a town in Iowa, who is proposing a law banning residents from telling lies.