I can't speak for Michael McDowell. I was not the law agent for the State.The Tánaiste, Mary Harney, appears to distance herself from the Minister for Justice in the controversy about the deal struck with religious orders to compensate abuse victims
You got Woodsie to do the deal and you signed off on it and you hoped it would never come back to haunt you.
The Labour leader, Pat Rabbitte, attacks the Taoiseach and the former minister for education, Dr Michael Woods, over the agreement indemnifying the orders
He can have any estimate he likes.
Dr Woods disputes the Comptroller and Auditor General's prediction that the cost of compensating the abused could be as high as €1 billion
I admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.
Quotes attributed to Arnold Schwarzenegger this week which threaten to derail his campaign to be elected governor of California
The way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years.
Ted Turner, former vice-chairman of AOL Time Warner, whose three foundations spend millions on environmental and health initiatives
If temperatures get warmer by two or three degrees Celsius, it's not that bad. We could spend less on warm coats.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, saying global warming may not be all bad. He has delayed ratifying the Kyoto Protocol as a result
Whatever you did on Bloody Sunday, it clearly did not count against you in terms of your career within the army.
Séamus Treacy, barrister for some of the families of Bloody Sunday victims, questions a British soldier at the Saville Inquiry who was promoted several times
You should stay as long as you have something to do and then go as soon as you don't.
Tony Blair reveals his career philosophy
All of a sudden, poor countries are busting up trade rounds, standing up to the International Monetary Fund and turning down foreign investment. What's going on?
Naomi Klein, anti-globalisation writer, on an Argentinian referendum in which 81 per cent of the population voted against the construction of a mine by a US company
First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.
Robert Novak, a Washington Post journalist, whose column naming a CIA agent is thought to have been a White House leak
A total lack of consultation and communications from the Minister.
John O'Sullivan, chairman of the Kerry branch of the Vintners' Federation, explains why publicans in the county will defy a ban on smoking in pubs
Could I do the best action ever or should I just stick to dialogue?
Movie maker Quentin Tarantino on why his new film, Kill Bill, will be an action film with little of his trademark quick-fire dialogue.
I hope it will steady him.
The mother of fast-living snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan, who has become a Muslim
I don't think there are any surprises. The most important point is that they can confirm they have not found any stocks or weapons of mass destruction of any kind.
Hans Blix, former chief UN weapons inspector, as a report delivered to US Congress says no trace of WMD has been uncovered in Iraq