The last Minister (for Justice) was given to provoking the public and Garda. When frustrated that he could not catch criminals, he expressed the intention to get his hands on the Opposition. We now have a Minister who has a far more soothing approach and will go forward on the basis that he feels our pain and will pour treacle on all these issues.
Labour's justice spokesman Pat Rabbitte during a Dáil debate on tackling crime.
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, says her mooted power-sharing arrangement with President Musharraf is not yet a certainty.
I believe that the cold war era will end.
Roh Moo-Hyun, president of South Korea, after he and North Korea leader Kim Jong Il sign an agreement calling for peace.
I think to attack someone as a mother is very dangerous.
Sinead O'Connor, defends singer Britney Spears amid accusations that she is a bad mother.
If we're being overly cautious, that's okay. We're in uncharted territory.
Karen Magid, a lawyer for Paramount Pictures, which is considering whether to permanently relocate three Afghani child actors because of threats related to their portrayal of a rape scene in the new movie The Kite Runner.
They look very exhausted and very relieved.
Peter Bailey, a mineworker union spokesman in South Africa, after the first of 3,200 miners trapped in a goldmine are rescued.
If you add all these little disasters together you get a mega disaster.
UN emergency relief co-ordinator John Holmes on the record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year.
I am now a heavenly body.
Star Trek actor George Takei who has had an asteroid named in his honour.
You don't have the power to stop me.
Jimmy Carter, the former US president, to the Sudan security detachment that prevented him from entering a town in Darfur.
Nobody is in prison in Turkey today for expressing their ideas.
Turkish president Abdullah Gul on the country's human rights record.
We should promote an all-island economy through a single joined-up effective agency, with the IDA and INI no longer competitors, but fully collaborative.
Dr Alan Gillespie, chair of the Ulster Bank Group, calls for the IDA and its Northern equivalent to merge.
To go out and immediately restore America's standing.
Bill Clinton talking about the role he expects his wife Hillary to play if she is elected US president.