No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be an AAA country.
– US president Barack Obama on the decision by credit rating agency S&P to downgrade the US from its top triple-A rating
The days when the debt-ridden Uncle Sam could leisurely squander unlimited overseas borrowing appeared to be numbered.
– China, reacting to the US downgrade, through the official Xinhua news agency
The mob were just standing there, cheering and laughing. Others were just watching on from their homes open-mouthed in horror.
– An onlooker in Peckham, London, where a 100-strong mob was watching a fire
These are pure and simple criminals running wild tonight. They have nothing to protest against. There has been no spark. This has been senseless on a scale I have never witnessed before in my career.
– Greater Manchester assistant chief constable Gary Shewan, on the rioting which took place in Manchester
Micheál Martin called me last Saturday night, and he was on holidays in Skibbereen and I was on holidays in Donegal, and he asked me to consider it.
– Gay Byrne revealing the Fianna Fáil leader had asked him to consider running for the presidency