There is no threat to the peace process from the IRA.
- IRA statement in which the organisation committed itself to putting its weapons beyond use "completely and verifiably"
The IRA isn't just stretching itself, it is actually overstretching itself to try and facilitate and enhance and bring about the restoration of the peace process.
- The Sinn Fein president, Mr Gerry Adams
The statement is very interesting; it does appear to break new ground.
- David Trimble
The commission welcomes the recent development and looks forward to re-engaging actively with the paramilitary groups to further the peace process.
- A spokesman for the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, whose chairman is Gen John de Chastelain
He [Tony Blair] doesn't want the IRA to start bombing across the water, so he is making Ulster the sacrificial lamb.
- Ian Paisley, the DUP leader, on the scaling down of security in the North
If, in the unlikely but theoretically possible circumstance of the IRA ceasefire being broken . . . it would be impossible for the political representatives of the republican movement to remain active participants in the democratic institutions that we are creating.
- Northern Secretary Mr Peter Mandelson
It's with the greatest humility and regret all this has to be faced now.
- Mr George Redmond, former assistant Dublin city and county manager, during new evidence to the Flood tribunal
I would say it is a myth that the tribunal represents the triumph of Irish investigative journalism.
- Mr Michael Smith, chairman of An Taisce and the man credited with bringing about the Flood tribunal
People get the message and wonder if it really might be a love letter. They read it out of amusement or in the hope that it really is a love letter. They open it and the damage is done.
- Graham Cluley of the anti-virus company, Sophos, talking about the Love Bug virus
Let's go - man to man. Me and Lewis - in the streets if he wants to. No bodyguards or anything.
- Boxer Mike Tyson, in a challenge to Lennox Lewis
Ethnic cleansing, Irish style.
- Father Tony O'Riordan, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, of the Government's detention plans for failed asylum-seekers before they are deported
I'll get a pension and some new running shoes - that doesn't sound very good for someone who works with the imagination, does it?
- The British novelist Nicola Barker, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, on how she will spend the £100,000 prize money