They can't put a statement out saying they murdered an innocent woman, so this is their way of justifying what they did. - Helen McKendry, whose mother, Jean McConville, was murdered by the IRA. The organisation has claimed Mrs McConville was an informer.
In actual fact the reason it's on the rise is because probably the boom times are getting even more boomer. - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says the rising rate of inflation is a symptom of a high-flying economy.
I've just come back from Finland and over there every driver must do 10 hours of theory in driving college followed by 20 hours of practical tuition with an instructor, by law. In this country, we don't even have access to a book with the rules of the road. - Karl Walsh, general manager of the Irish School of Motoring, suggests inaction by the State is contributing to rising numbers of road deaths.
The shelling will stay for two days but our dignity will last much longer. - Khalil Samour, a Beirut cab driver, as Israel ratchets up its military assault on the city.
This is not an arm-wrestling competition or a test of false machismo. It is a fateful battle: a victory over Israel by these two radical Islamic organisations will release demons across the entire Middle East. - Sever Plotzker, a columnist with Tel Aviv's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, on Israel's onslaught against Hizbullah and Hamas.
If there is blood to be spilled, then let Dr Paisley spill his own blood, because it will not be our bodies he is climbing over. - David Nichol, spokesman for the Ulster Political Research Group, distances itself from the statement by DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley that he could not envisage powersharing with Sinn Féin.
No one can make India kneel. - India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, says the country would not allow terrorism to destabilise it.
He said very hard words about my mother and my sister. I tried not to listen to him but he kept repeating them. - French footballer Zinedine Zidane explains the most famous headbutt in history.
We run a serious risk that some day someone will go into the living room, flick the switch and nothing will happen because we do not have the capability to generate any energy from any source at all. - Alistair Darling, Britain's trade and industry secretary. In the face of Irish Government opposition, Britain plans a new generation of nuclear power stations.
My own view in dealing with President Putin is that nobody likes to be lectured a lot. - President George Bush, who is to discuss Moscow's human rights record with the Russian president when G8 leaders meet this weekend.
The story of his personal meltdown has been told and retold as a cautionary tale for indiscriminate druggies . . . This is not as it should be. - Music writer Nick Kent pays tribute to Syd Barrett, the late Pink Floyd singer.
Talent can only take you so far - you are never going to achieve anything without hard work. This is about merit, not colour. - Ashwell Prince, South Africa's first black cricket captain.
The days you didn't see me, or no one saw me, were the days that I simply couldn't get up or could not do anything. - Singer Kylie Minogue recalls her fight against cancer.
I take no pleasure in seeing a man's arrest but I think it is time the UK woke up to the fact that there is a real problem at the heart of Westminster democracy. - Angus MacNeil, a British MP, after a UK Labour party fundraiser close to Tony Blair was arrested by police investigating cash for peerages allegations.