This Week They Said

This week's quotes from around the world

This week's quotes from around the world

The game is over. Saddam Hussein will be stopped.

President Bush beats the war drums.

If we had a relationship with al-Qaeda and we believed in that relationship, we wouldn't be afraid to admit it.

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Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

I do not wish to misrepresent or caricature President Bush or Condoleezza Rice, but there is a widespread concern that there is too much belief by our friends in the US in the efficacy of force and not necessarily as a last resort.

Senator Martin Mansergh.

It's not simply ironic that these self-proclaimed peace activists are resorting to violence. It's outrageous.

Richard Haass, US special envoy to Ireland, as anti-war protesters sabotage a US plane at Shannon.

When we moved, in nobody believed these planes were landing - now nobody questions it.

Tracy Ryan, a member of the Shannon peace camp, which packed its bags this week.

That is what he always wanted to do. That is what he did. That is what he was sacrificed to do.

Joanne Anderson, mother of astronaut Michael Anderson, who died in the Columbia disaster.

It would be all wrapped up in a nice neat ribbon and forgotten about.

Political lobbyist Frank Dunlop says he lied to the Flood tribunal because he thought it would be short-lived and ineffective.

I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone whom I let into my heart and told the truth could sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair programme.

Singer Michael Jackson condemns Martin Bashir's "tawdry" fly-on-the-wall documentary.

You live by the gun, you die by the gun. He's put plenty of people out of their homes. He had it coming.

An unidentified neighbour of loyalist renegade Johnny Adair, whose family fled to Scotland this week.

They knew enough to protect themselves financially, but not enough to protect children.

Marie Collins, a victim of clerical abuse, as it emerged that the majority of Irish dioceses were insured against abuse by priests from the mid-1980s.

Out of 81 homes on the Lee estate, everyone knows that there were just two very vulnerable houses.

Limerick councillor John Gilligan accuses gardaí of failing to protect the two families at the centre of a bloody feud in the city.

There are more cases approved for the death penalty by the attorney general than there have ever been before. He's acting like a Texas politician, but then of course he works for one.

Dick Burr, a Texas defence lawyer, accuses US attorney general John Ashcroft pushing for the death penalty with a crusader's zeal.