We don't live in an ideal world. We have a coalition government, we have to have give and take.
- Tánaiste Mary Harney as the PDs assent to a publicly owned second terminal at Dublin airport.
Stick with the kebabs.
- Minister of State Conor Lenihan jeers socialist TD Joe Higgins.
As every punch landed, I could almost hear the cheers in the refugee camps of the Palestinians, in Falluja, in Karbala and Baghdad.
- George Galloway, the Westminster MP, claims victory against the US senators who allege that he was given oil credits by Saddam Hussein.
It's not appropriate for lower Manhattan, it's not appropriate for Manhattan, it's not appropriate for the United States, it's not appropriate for freedom.
- Developer Donald Trump deplores the Freedom Tower in New York, once likely to replace the World Trade Centre, but which has been sent back to the drawing board.
The biggest issue in the film is: Dad goes bad. And for a lot of kids, that's a pretty rough concept.
- George Lucas, talking about a scene from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, in which Anakin becomes Darth Vader.
There is nothing else going on in this country over the past several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions.
- John Lewis, deputy assistant of the FBI, says "eco-militants" are the biggest terrorist threat in the US.
They are unjust to their children and downright selfish. And it's time they were told so.
- Fr Brian McKevitt, editor of the catholic newspaper Alive, criticises parents who spend extravagantly on their children's first Holy Communion.
The elites here have never involved the public on anything to do with the EU. Now all the negative elements are piling up. The gap is widening in favour of the No camp.
- Maurice De Hond, head of the Peil polling agency in the Netherlands, as the Dutch prepare to vote in a referendum on the EU constitution.
I'll come along any Saturday night and we'll watch the world unfold.
- Judge John Neilan of the District Court challenges publicans in Mullingar to meet him after 3am on a busy Saturday and witness first hand the problem of public drunkenness.
I think it should be given a reasonable burial.
- DUP leader Ian Paisley declares the Belfast Agreement dead and buried.
Everyone is totally shocked that we didn't get through.
- Karl Broderick, who wrote Ireland's Eurovision entry. The song, performed by Joseph and Donna McCaul, was eliminated at the semi-final stage.
To me, a 40 per cent increase in deforestation doesn't mean anything at all, and I don't feel the slightest guilt over what we are doing here.
- Blairo Maggi, the millionaire Brazilian farmer who is blamed for a huge increase in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.
People were waving white flags and screaming that they had no weapons, but they continued to shoot. One woman, who was wounded, fell on top of me. I have no idea whether she is now alive or not.
- Muhamat Mavlanov, an ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan who was shot in the arm by Uzbek security forces in the massacre in Andijan.
