War doesn't frighten us.
- Mr Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority president, after Israel launched air and ground attacks inside Palestinian territory
I'm not mad about Bono . . . If I saw Bono in Lillie's, I'd head for the other corner of the club. - Eamon Dunphy
It could be a major twist of fate or coincidence - who knows? - but it shows he was meant to be found, no matter what.
- Ms Ann Rogers, talking about her brother, Mr Kevin Crennan, who reappeared in Colombia recently having been missing for seven years
They told me I would have to stay the night . . . I just became angry at this and said that I had co-operated with you for six hours now, and you have nothing against me and you won't even tell me what you have against me.
- Mr Crennan, talking about his time in custody
Clarke could just be an emetic, a purging agent, which in many ways would be a good thing.
- Mr Steven Norris, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party
Three young people are dead this morning and their families are torn apart . . . I don't want to add to it other than to give a general warning to young people to stay safe and not to become involved in drugs of any kind.
- The North's drugs co-ordinator, Ms Jo Daykin, on the three men who died after taking drugs at a party in Belfast
Had this detonated it would have made the Omagh atrocity look like a minor incident.
- Mr Ian Paisley jnr, DUP, on the car-bomb that was planted by loyalists in a crowded Ballycastle, Co Antrim
I can say with certainty they were not there representing Sinn Fein. I would have had to authorise such a project and I did not do so. Neither was I or anyone else asked to.
- Mr Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein president, of the three Irishmen arrested in Colombia
Lower than vermin.
- Publicist Max Clifford, as described by the Hamiltons after sex allegations against them were dropped
Father Halley's priestly ministry was inspired by the Beatitudes: "Happy are the poor in spirit. Happy those who hunger and thirst for what is right. Happy the peacemakers."
- The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Sean Brady, on Father Rufus Halley, the Irish priest murdered in the Philippines
We are no longer an emigrant country.
- Mr Gerry O'Hanlon, a director of the Central Statistics Office, on the rise in the population to 3.84 million
It was Fantasia in C Minor with mobile phone, beeping watches and coughing and sneezing accompaniment.
- Reviewer Katie Grant, on the ambience at an Edinburgh Festival recital by Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff, who stormed off stage
You don't know how difficult it has been being a closet heterosexual.
- Singer David Bowie