The week that was, in words...
You're a Garret FitzGerald! You've tripled the national debt, you've effectively destroyed the country and now you've a dirty, wasteful botch job of a Cabinet reshuffle. – Fine Gael's Leo Varadkar sticks it to Brian Cowen (via a sideswipe at his own party's former leader)
It was a great opportunity for the Taoiseach to revamp his team, and that he did not do. He played it safe . . . He dropped nobody. – Fianna Fáil Tipperary North TD Máire Hoctor voicing backbench feeling
Instead of €12,500 per family would you rather that it costs €30,000 per family? – Anglo Irish Bank chief executive Mike Aynsley's computations on the cost to the taxpayer of closing the bank, as opposed to bailing it out
Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust for the future. – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin responding to the pope's pastoral letter
Don't retreat, Instead – RELOAD! – Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin exhorts US Republican Party extremists, many of them gun fanatics, following the passage of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms
We need to defeat these bastards. We need to wipe them out. – Conservative US radio personality Rush Limbaugh chips in
You wouldn't treat cattle the way we've been treated today. – Frustrated woman named Margaret queuing outside the Passport Office in Dublin
This is a serious matter for you personally, I have to warn you . . . To put words in my mouth that I never said I find very offensive. – Mr Justice Peter Kelly to Ryanair's Michael O'Leary, whom he accused of being a liar
I think humility will be appropriate in this case, yes. I will certainly have to take a lot more care to make sure that letters I draft immediately are factually accurate in every respect. – Mr O'Leary eats a little humble pie outside court