I don't want there to be any ambiguity about this. Fianna Fáil must be put out of government at the next election. – Labour leader Eamon Gilmore
We cannot, on the one hand, condemn Fianna Fáil for entertaining developers in the Galway tent, while on the other hand extend the biscuit tin for contributions from high-profile developers who are beholden to Nama. –Fine Gael TD Lucinda Creighton speaking at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties
It is the most shameful, inane thing I have seen in all the years I have been doing the fringe. You will ruin it for everyone. Have a heart, for God's sake.– Comedian Stewart Lee in an e-mail to the publicists of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, which this week announced a public vote to determine a "comedy god" from all previous Edinburgh fringe award nominees
Releasing the Lockerbie bomber, a mass murderer, was completely wrong. He showed his victims no compassion. – British prime minister David Cameron
I believe I am the first Taoiseach to have visited Crossmaglen. – Brian Cowen on a visit to mark opening of a Fianna Fáil office
Shakespeare liked to coin new words too.– Sarah Palin "refudiates" criticism over her grasp of the English language