There are before the inquiry certain documents in which it is claimed that Mr [Martin] McGuinness was in his capacity as a member of the Provisional IRA actively involved in the events of Bloody Sunday and that he was armed with, and may have fired, a Thompson sub machinegun.
- Counsel to the Bloody Sunday inquiry, Mr Christopher Clarke QC
If this is the best the British military can do, they are going to have a miserable time in Derry Guildhall for the next two years.
- Mr McGuinness responding to the claim
When, and if, Mr McGuinness gives evidence . . . I would not be surprised if he said he was helping disabled children off a bus or old women cross the road at the time of the shooting.
- Mr Gregory Campbell MLA (DUP) The only thing I ordered was a cappuccino.
- Mr John Gilligan denying in the Special Criminal Court that he had put a price on the heads of those prepared to testify against him
We are wholly innocent. That business [Ansbacher] was introduced to us as impeccable. We thought it was very good business at the time. Now we wish we hadn't taken it.
- IIB chairman Paddy McEvoy on the bank's links to the Ansbacher deposits
To go ahead with complete debt alleviation would go very far beyond our own means.
- Ms Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian Foreign Minister, responding to African ministers' appeals for a complete cancellation of their countries' debt
Thuggery from on high.
- Peter Hain, British Foreign Office Minister, of the unrest in Zimbabwe
I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him.
- Manchester United's Gary Neville, of West Ham's keeper, Craig Forrest, who conceded seven goals to the Reds last Saturday
It is fair to say the defendant wreaked havoc in the community.
- Judge Matthew Deery, jailing for 12 years a retired Donegal priest, Eugene Greene (71), for sexual abuse against altar boys
While we do not believe that every priest, brother or nun is an abuser, the church as an organisation has been, and still is, a haven and a sanctuary for abusers and paedophiles.
- Ms Josephine Baker, director of the Organisation for Recovery from Institutional Abuse
We do not need democracy, we need water pumps.
- The Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gadafy, attacking the Europeans for their emphasis on democracy at the Africa-EU summit
Today he fulfils a different role.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, asked if Col Gadafy confirmed to him that his country was no longer supplying arms to the North
Everyone has been alerted as to what is going on . . . You've got four weeks before this becomes a disaster, and if it does, blame will be laid at the doors of those responsible.
- Bob Geldof on Ethopia, which could be facing famine
A common lie.
- Mr Vladimir Kalamanov, the Russian human rights ombudsman, of comments by Mary Robinson that she had been denied access to places in Chechnya she wished to see
It's appalling. To think that someone's son has gone to a football match and is coming home in a body bag is terrible.
- Mick McCarthy on the soccer violence in Turkey that claimed two English lives