This tendency to establish a lot of agencies and bodies at one remove from the government is a form of abdication from governmental responsibilities and I don't agree with it.
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Brian Lenihan.
This is a new culture of meaningless violence which only creates a climate of vengeance and fear and retaliation. It is a culture which breaks down and destroys neighbourliness. That is not the direction which life in modern Ireland should be taking.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin following a further spate of gangland killings.
We understand that when a new government comes to power in any country, it is seeking to find its place.
Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says the UK's new prime minister Gordon Brown is to blame for deteriorating Russian-British relations.
People want to think well of themselves and are keen to be self-reliant.
Kenneth McKenzie, a psychologist with UCD's Geary Institute, as a new survey shows that, contrary to their spendthrift image, most 20-somethings are regular savers.
If he was here today, then I would prepare him a mutton korma. It was his absolute favourite, with a pilau full of almonds, orange peel and raisins.
"Ahktar", Osama Bin Laden's former valet, reveals the terrorist leader is a fan of curries.
I am staggered that some American newspapers have decided to publish purported spoilers in the form of reviews in complete disregard of the wishes of literally millions of readers, particularly children, who wanted to reach Harry's final destination by themselves, in their own time.
JK Rowling, on the much-hyped release of her final Harry Potter novel.
The fact is that people feel the Seanad is such an irrelevance they would put their vote up for sale.
Daniel Sullivan, a candidate for election to the Seanad on the NUI panel, after an Irish user of internet auction website eBay listed his Seanad vote for sale.
Summers are always hot, and we expect this summer's temperatures to rise with victories by the peoples of the region.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, is asked if he expects another "hot summer" like last year's, when Israel and Hizbullah clashed.
A bus driver cannot be distracted.
Spokesman for a German bus company after a bus driver asked a passenger to get off the bus because her cleavage was distracting him.
It looked like the World Trade Center had exploded . . . As I was running I got pelted in the head by rocks and concrete.
Reggie Evans, a New York office worker, after a steam pipe burst near Grand Central station, sending a geyser of steam and near-boiling water 120ft into the air.
I looked up and I saw a huge ball of fire, and then I smelled the stench of kerosene and sulphur.
Airline employee Elias Rodrigues Jesus, who witnessed an Airbus A320 crash in São Paulo, killing 200 people.
There had been a mudslide upriver and that had brought down trees and large stones.
Tony Hamilton, of Leenane, Co Galway, who saw the three-arched stone bridge that featured in Oscar-nominated film The Field being swept away by torrential rain.
I don't have the desire any longer.
Champion golfer Seve Ballesteros announcing his retirement from the game.
Students will be grouped together to perform the waltz and they will change partners regularly . . . This way, the risk of young love will be lowered.
Yin Guochen of China's sports administration, which is introducing dance classes aimed at curbing obesity in Chinese children.