A selection of quotes from the past week
I explained to him that Aids was like the leprosy of the New Testament.
Bono reveals how he persuaded the former US Republican senator Jesse Helms to admit that he was wrong to oppose funding for Aids research
The children are young and well travelled, so hopefully they will get over this.
Mary McMahon, the grandmother of two Irish children rescued from a school siege in Cambodia
I was very, very annoyed about it. I was astonished. You'd be less than human if you weren't annoyed about something like that.
The Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, after it emerged that a statement he made about a case of alleged Garda brutality was removed from a file by gardaí before it was sent to the Garda Complaints Board and the Director of Public Prosecutions
I really believe the French and Dutch did not vote No to the constitutional treaty.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg and current EU president, attempts to salvage the constitution
If there's resistance towards reform, well then, the lifetime of this Government will be shorter than 2007.
As the Minister for Justice drops plans for cafe-bar licences in the face of Fianna Fáil backbench opposition,Progressive Democrats senator Tom Morrissey signals growing tension between the Government partners
We made clear to the Taoiseach that when he, the southern Government, are able to say to us 'We could share power with the IRA', it would be time enough for the people of Northern Ireland to think of having them back in the government of Northern Ireland.
DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley, after talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern
It was seen as a moral failure on the part of the brother.
Brother David Gibson, a provincial leader of the Christian Brothers, says that clerical abuse was sometimes regarded as a moral lapse rather than a crime at St Joseph's industrial school, Letterfrack, Co Galway
Ireland is the only country in Europe with this policy. Drivers can now go from the Border to Portlaoise without passing any service stations. This means we are being forced into little towns that don't want us there.
Jimmy Quinn, of the National Road Haulage Association, as the National Roads Authority says it will not allow service stations on the State's motorways