A selection of quotes from around the world
The attack against her also hurt the society we've built up and we want to live in. - Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson after the fatal stabbing of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh
Bin taxes are a way of life.
The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, as protesters blocked rubbish collection in Blanchardstown, north Dublin
Please God, this is the end of it.
Singer Joe Dolan, who was cleared of drink-driving charges after a key Garda witness failed to turn up at court because he was on holiday.
Unhelpful and potentially misleading.
Westminster's intelligence and security committee verdict on the failure of British Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, to disclose the concerns expressed by intelligence staff about the Iraq weapons dossier
Do not be satisfied with the sole quest for economic advantages. Great affluence, in fact, can also generate great poverty.
Pope John Paul II
His job is to consolidate power within his administration, to get the security forces under control, all security forces, and then to unleash those security forces against killers.
President George Bush gives advice to the new Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Korei, in the wake of this week's suicide-bomb attacks on Israel
Despite the reprehensible attacks against us, we have not lost hope of living in peace with our neighbours.
Ariel Sharon, Israeli prime minister
We cannot let past differences interfere with present duties.
President Bush calls on the United Nations to provide a multinational force to help secure peace in Iraq
I was here last year on an all-night vigil. I'm here this year on an all-night vigil. As long as I have breath, I will be here on an all-night vigil.
Delia Colon, draped in an American flag and praying at the fence which surrounds the World Trade Centre site
You think to yourself, 'It wouldn't be any good if it wasn't making me sick to the stomach, 24 hours a day".
Writer Martin Amis thinks anxiety is part of being a novelist
I am sorry if there are some people - German politicians, Jewish groups or that type of thing - who get upset. But it's just history. I see no reason for such a fuss.
Alessandro Lunardelli, the Italian vintner whose Führerwein labels with pictures of Hitler have caused anger in Germany