A deal with Fianna Fáil would be a deal with the devil. - Green Party TD Ciarán Cuffe writing in his blog. A Green spokesman said that the remarks had been made in a personal capacity.
I don't need anyone to keep me straight or to clean me up.
- Fianna Fáil deputy leader Brian Cowen after the Greens spoke of their desire to clean up Irish politics.
This is modern Irish living. Other people might find it hard to get their heads around this. We see each other every second weekend and whenever we are in Dublin.
- Olwyn Enright, the Birr-based Fine Gael TD, who is married to Joe McHugh, a newly-elected deputy for Fine Gael in Donegal.
The actions of the tribunal in . . . circulating the documents at a such a time was bound to create a serious risk of an interference with the democratic process.
- Conor Maguire, senior counsel for the Taoiseach, criticising the Mahon tribunal for circulating confidential documentation when it was warned that it would be leaked to the media.
He said that he would pray for us and our family and for Madeleine's safe return.
- Kate McCann speaking after meeting Pope Benedict almost one month after her four-year-old daughter was kidnapped from a Portuguese hotel apartment.
This guy thinks he's a monarch, and that's scary as hell.
- Mickey Edward, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, suggesting that power has gone to President Bush's head.
We envision a time when surface computing technologies will be pervasive, from tabletops and counters to the hallway mirror.
- Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, unveiling plans for a computer shaped like a coffee table.
I think it is wrong. I think that those people harm themselves and, without caring about it, harm society.
- Ian Paisley jnr saying that he is "repulsed" by gay people.
Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next "American Idol".
- Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, whose son Casey was killed in action in Baghdad in 2004. She has announced the end of her anti-war campaign.
The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33 per cent. This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list.
- Laurens Dillirch, chairman of Dutch broadcaster BNN, defending a new reality TV show in which three contestants will compete for the kidneys of a terminally-ill woman.
They're trying to portray me as a Russian James Bond who jumps inside a nuclear reactor and poisons his Russian friend and children and wife.
- Andrei Lugovoi, the man charged by the UK with murdering the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.
Your failure to heed our demands means that you and your people will experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq and Virginia Tech.
- Adam Yehiye Gadahn, an American member of al-Qaeda, warning the US that it faces further atrocities.
I'm just going to grab hold of her and tie a rope around her waist and not let her go until she is 34.
- Daniel Foley speaking after his two-year-old daughter, Trista, had been found after being lost with another toddler in the Australian bush for more than 24 hours