This Week They Said

He's looking a little bit white. Well, he is white. Pale, let's say he's pale.

He's looking a little bit white. Well, he is white. Pale, let's say he's pale.

- Boxing commentator Harry Carpenter, as Francois Botha made his way to the ring to face Mike Tyson

He's objecting all over the place. He's objecting to the truth coming out. He knows what's in it - dynamite.

- James Gogarty, on Garrett Cooney SC, JMSE's lawyer in the Flood tribunal

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As Mr Gogarty is anxious to tell the truth, warts and all, it would be inappropriate to leave some warts till later.

- Eoin McGonigal SC, for Ray Burke

Let there be no doubt about it, Mr Gogarty is in for some big ambush.

- Colm Allen SC, predicting a rough time for Mr Gogarty, whose cross-examination be- gins next week

Although I am not a lawyer, from what I personally saw I do not hesitate to describe the event as a massacre, obviously a crime very much against humanity. Nor do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of responsibility.

- William Walker, head of the Kosovo Verification Force

I am resigned to my fate, even if that means dying here [Britain]. This is part of my sacrifice to the fatherland. If this is the last thing I'll have to do, so be it.

- Gen Augusto Pinochet

I read in the London Times this morning stories about no decommissioning and so on and I worry very much indeed. It does seem to me that we've all come a very, very long way but we still, all of us, have got a long way to go.

- Departing British ambassador, Dame Veronica Sutherland

There may be heavy cloud, there may be flak, there may even be hijackers on board. But we can see the lights of the runway.

- Seamus Mallon, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland

I'd love to see the day when I could advocate it [decommissioning] and stay alive.

- David Ervine of the PUP

I know I am guilty in law and morally . . . I'm prepared for physical misery. After all, I did go to Eton.

- Jonathan Aitken on the prospect of prison after admitting perjury and perverting justice

Despite the fact that I have never expressed the least interest in this sad and sordid little episode, I am resigned to seeing it rehashed and reprinted over and over again.

- Film director John Boorman denying media reports that he is planning a film on the Bishop Eamonn Casey affair

Sometimes there's a moment and sometimes the moment passes. I understand that . . . I understand that this could be a very unique moment.

- Texas governor George Bush ponders running for the Republican nomination for the Presidency

Though I love being an MP, I don't want still to be one at 65.

- Paddy Ashdown, who has announced he is to stand down as leader of the Liberal Democrats this summer

It meant a great deal for me that the prime minister chose to land with his plane at Gaza International Airport and send out the right message. With this gesture, prime minister, you have touched my heart and the hearts of the Palestinian people.

- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, addressing the Taoiseach, the first European leader to fly into Gaza

I'll fight anyone. If the price is right, I'll fight a lion.

- Boxer Mike Tyson (32) on the prospect of being matched against former champion George Foreman (50)