This Week They Said

This week's news in quotes.

This week's news in quotes.

Their bodies are there but their souls went to hell.

Muwaffak al-Rubaiei of Baghdad's new governing council on claims that Saddam Hussein's two sons were killed.

We have a tradition of respecting the dead. We objected to the showing of bodies of American servicemen. It's kind of ironic that we turn around and display dead folks now.

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Col Dan Smith, a retired US military intelligence officer, on the decision to publish photographs of two corpses it says are Uday and Qusay Hussein.

This war has not ended. The will of the people, the government, the Baath Party is not broken.

A voice believed to be that of Saddam Hussein broadcast by an Arab station.

I am going to fight like a Bengal tiger.

Gray Davis, Democrat governor of California, who faces a recall vote after a Republican-led petition secured the signatures required for the procedure.

What it is is what it is. I inhaled. Exhaled. Everything.

Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who may challenge the California election as a Republican, on his drug taking.

You must do your own growing no matter how poor your grandfather was.

European Commissioner for Agriculture Dr Franz Fischler defends CAP reform policy to Irish farmers.

I will not participate any further in this political show trial and I now withdraw with my dignity intact.

Alleged "Real IRA" leader Michael McKevitt sacks his legal team on the 24th day of his trial.

An unconditional political donation.

Cllr Colm McGrath on £2,000 he received from lobbyist Frank Dunlop.

Minister Martin has clearly learned a trick or two from some of his more streetwise colleagues who have found that if you announce the same thing over and over again, it creates the impression of activity without actually having to do very much.

Labour health spokeswoman Liz McManus on a €75 million aid package for the health service unveiled this week.

God must be a feminist.

A woman braves the rain at a pro-am event at Portmarnock golf club, which has a men-only membership rule.

The world needs a sign of hope for Christian families. May they be able to open their doors to the Lord.

The Pope's "thought for the day", delivered by text message to Irish mobile phone subscribers this week.

Victims of IRA terrorism will recoil in horror that such T-shirts even exist and the fact that a so-called political party can fill its coffers on the basis of such imagery is a further degrading slap in the face.

Ulster Unionist David McNarry criticises Sinn Féin for advertising T-shirts with "Sniper at Work" and other pro-IRA slogans on its website.

Students just can't go into the city centre in the evening.

Michael Fitzgerald of Dublin's International Study Centre warns English language students not to go into town after dark.

I had been through security and the bags were on the flight and it was decision time. It was 10 minutes to take-off and I think I made the right decision to talk to Chelsea.

Soccer star Damien Duff decides to join the club, minutes before he was due to fly to the US with Blackburn Rovers.