This time we will not let you down. Saddam and his regime will be removed.Tony Blair's message to the Iraqi people.
It's time to stop trying to be Mr Nice Guy. They are bombing us. Let's start bombing the hell out of them.
Sgt Robert Byrd, US tank commander.
We let them go for a walk in the desert, but all our towns will resist.
Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi vice-president.
I was told to shoot only if I'm shot at. I don't want to kill anybody.
Private Miller, paraded by his Iraqi captors on television.
[He had been] having what some might call an attitude problem.
A US army spokesman on Sgt Asan Akbar, of the 326th Engineers, who attacked his own regiment in Kuwait, killing one officer and wounding 16 other men.
We live in fictitious times. We live in a time with fictitious election results that elect fictitious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr Bush. Shame on you, shame on you.
Michael Moore's Oscar acceptance speech for his documentary Bowling for Columbine.
I'm sure that he would have expressed his anger and probably told them how stupid it is to go through this.
What John Lennon would have told Blair and Bush according to Yoko Ono.
That aid didn't get to the farms where the women and children are; our people lost control and young Iraqi men began emptying the trucks.
Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, vice-chairman of the Red Crescent, on the fate of the first aid shipment to Safwan.
This was a last resort. It totally goes against our mission statement and everything we stand for but unfortunately we have no other choice.
Phil O'Neill, patient services manager at the Mater Hospital Dublin, which announced it will close 115 beds before the end of next month because of lack of funds.
We only provide refunds where we screw up, and if you don't like it, don't fly with us.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary.
If you're going for a free-for-all, do it when the employers are making a lot of money and not when they are losing money.
Des Geraghty, president of SIPTU, as a new national pay deal is agreed.
I am conscious of the pain and upset of the McCabe family but the Castlerea prisoners qualify under the terms of the Good Friday agreement and there is an obligation on the government to honour their commitments and release them.
Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris as the High Court refuses an application for release by two men jailed in connection with the 1996 killing of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.
I find it odd that people take me seriously.
Abrasive Newsnight anchor Jeremy Paxman.
I think a national side should be coached by one of its own. I am not saying that a non-Irishman cannot be successful with Ireland or a non-Englishman with England, but they start with a disadvantage because they do not know the little ways of the country they have moved to. You understand your own players better when you are one of them.
Ireland rugby coach Eddie O'Sullivan.
It is no longer a question of maintaining competitiveness, it is a question of restoring it.
Dr Michael Casey, Central Bank assistant director general.