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What we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground.

What we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground.

US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice admits Saddam Hussein may not have stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.

If you find yourself on a train that is going in the wrong direction, it is best to get off at the next stop.

Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, says the US should have realised its intelligence was flawed before it went to war with Iraq.

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I am satisfied that Dr Kelly took his own life by cutting his left wrist.

Lord Hutton presents his findings about the death of the weapons inspector.

There are points of law in there where he is quite clearly wrong.

Former BBC director general Greg Dyke, who resigned in the wake of the Hutton report.

He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

Conservative MP Boris Johnson on the British prime minister's political resilience.

Take a step back from the abyss, and step up efforts to make peace.

Walter Schwimmer, secretary general of the Council of Europe, pleads with Israel and the Palestinians after the most recent suicide bombing in Jerusalem, which killed at least 10.

A good beginning.

DUP leader Dr Ian Paisley after historic talks with the Taoiseach.

Migrants are part of the solution, not part of the problem. A closed Europe would be a meaner, poorer, weaker, older Europe. An open Europe will be a fairer, richer, stronger, younger Europe.

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.

It is ironic that the government of the most successful open society in the world should have fallen into the hands of ideologues who ignore the first principles of open society. Who would have thought ... that the US itself could pose a threat to open society?

Billionaire George Soros says he will put his vast fortune to use in trying to oust George Bush from the White House.

I am prepared to sign here in my blood that of all those who say they are lesbian or gay, at most 5 to 10 per cent are effectively lesbian or gay. All the rest are sexual perverts.

Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos.

I was writing speeches for Bertie on Wednesday and criticising him on a Friday.

Broadcaster David McWilliams recalls how he penned articles critical of government economic policy under a pseudonym when writing scripts for the then minister for finance, Mr Ahern.

He is one of the bosses on the field, the referee is also one of the bosses on the field, so it is important for all bosses to have good relations. And we have very, very good relations.

Italian referee Pierluigi Collina on his respect for Roy Keane.

He's not a techno-klutz.

Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, defends the former president after it was revealed he sent only two e-mails during his entire time in office, one of which was a tester.