THIS WEEK THEY SAID

I don't think the press is going to be that interested in her hemlines because I don't think she's going to do a whole lot of…

I don't think the press is going to be that interested in her hemlines because I don't think she's going to do a whole lot of interviews with people interested in her hemlines.

Howard Dean, US presidential hopeful, says his wife Judith will continue her career if he is elected to the White House.

I am not sorry he has gone, but it brings it all back and it stirs it all up for us again.

A relative of one of Harold Shipman's victims after the serial-killer doctor's suicide.

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I've been around a hell of a long time and I know the difference between evidence and assertions and illusions or allusions and conclusions that one could draw from a set of assumptions.

Former US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill says he saw no evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Palestinians need a political perspective. They need to know that we can get into a process here which will deliver for both sides.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Cowen, after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists and to knock on the doors of heaven with the skulls of Zionists.

A video-taped message by Reem Al-Reyashi, the 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two who killed herself and four Israelis in a suicide-bombing in the Gaza Strip.

I took out the knife, then I attacked her . . . I couldn't resist the voices.

Mijailo Mijailovic says voices in his head drove him to kill Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister.

Poland offers cost advantages that were impossible to ignore.

Remco Steenbergen, manager of the European back-office operations of electronics group Philips, which is moving from Dublin to Lodz.

Disqualifying those who do not qualify to serve as the nation's representatives is not a violation of people's rights - it safeguards their rights.

A statement by conservative MPs in Iran, where the hardline Guardian Council has barred liberal politicians from standing for election.

Society would be wise to keep celibates right out of education and away from our children.

Justin Keating, former minister for labour.

It is not possible to walk away from the tribunal of inquiry.

Mr Justice Robert Barr, after legal counsel for the Garda Emergency Response Unit walked out of the inquiry into the fatal shooting of John Carthy.

Twenty-seven countries and no further. Otherwise the EU will collapse in chaos.

IFA president John Dillon warns that the EU must not continue to expand.

The only thing that Gerry Donaghy was armed with on Bloody Sunday was his innocence.

Conal McFeely says his friend Gerry Donaghy was unarmed when he was shot dead by British troops.

Dublin - A Breath of Fresh Air.

A new Dublin Tourism marketing slogan, which aims to capitalise on the ban on smoking in pubs and bars.

It's too important a festival for the town, the county and for Ireland for it to end like this.

Rose of Tralee chief executive Siobhán Hanley, as debts threaten the event's future.

Let the women play in more feminine clothes . . . They could, for example, have tighter shorts.

Sepp Blatter, president of world soccer governing body FIFA, says women's soccer would enjoy a boost in popularity if players dressed more skimpily.

Because we're in a small village in the country, we've felt left out of it sometimes. People tend to forget about you.

Chef Barry Smyth, owner of the Oriel Restaurant, in Gilford, Co Down, which received a Michelin star this week.