Write your own name ladies, and then get your husband to write one as well. If he doesn't write it, do what I do and just write one for him and sign his name.
- Ms Irene Cree, UUP delegate, urging the conference to launch a letter-writing campaign to the British Prime Minister, Mr Blair, to protest at proposals on policing contained in the Patten report
The battle over how society here is to be policed is a test of our Britishness. I call on each of you to work, to help, not hinder, and most of all to hold your nerve until we've won.
- Ulster Unionist MP Mr Ken Maginnis, commenting on his party's campaign against the Patten proposals
If the British government tells you to go into government with a gang of people with a private army, the only way you call the bluff of the British government is to go into government, to do your duty and to do what they ask you to do. And then, when the IRA doesn't decommission, Blair has to deal with it.
- Media commentator Eoghan Harris, who urged delegates at the UUP party conference to enter an executive with Sinn Fein without prior IRA decommissioning
We are not asking the SDLP to jump through hoops. We are asking them to recognise that the means is in place to establish a responsibility-sharing executive at Stormont. If they really want to help create a peaceful society, the offer is there.
- Lord Rogan, the UUP chairman, who in his speech called on the SDLP to abandon Sinn Fein and form an executive with his party
A nasty, hate-driven sectarian organisation.
- Lord Rogan on Sinn Fein
I hope I'm not looking out at this conference at future victims.
- UUP councillor Mr Jonathan Bell, organiser of the Long Walk, who warned delegates that the IRA was poised for a new wave of violence in the North
I would ask the media to give a balanced report of what went on here today - the support for the party leadership and the support for an executive. We want to reach out to our Catholic brothers and sisters. We want to build bridges. Sinn Fein will be shown for what they are down the road.
- Mr Billy Tate, UUP delegate, speaking from the floor during the conference