No matter what the challenge, Mo tackled it with courage and sincerity.
- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern pays tribute to Mo Mowlam who died yesterday.
We are not going to risk our lives. Our lives are more important than any building. I could not settle here. It was paint this time, what next?
- Pat McGaughey says she and her family are moving from their home in Ahoghill, North Antrim due to sectarian intimidation. Other Catholic families have already left.
Clearly we now know that Jean Charles was doing absolutely nothing to arouse any suspicion. He was just unfortunate to be living in a block of flats that was under surveillance and to look slightly brown-skinned.
- Harriet Wistrich, lawyer for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by London police, after a leaked report alleges that Scotland Yard's surveillance operation was botched.
This land has been special - holy - for our people since Abraham and the days of the Bible. But land is not more important than life. Nor is land more important than peace.
- Rabbi Dr Ron Kronish, who has lived in Gaza for 26 years, on why he chose to leave his settlement without protest.
At great expense in resources and human life, the US has substituted one living hell for another in Iraq.
- Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of American Prospect.
I am in awe of them. I'd love to be one of those girls with the nine A1s.
- Minister for Education Mary Hanafin as three students from Cork got nine A1s each in the Leaving Cert.
We expected that Nasa's leadership would set high standards for post-Columbia work . . . We were, overall, disappointed.
- A report by a committee overseeing safety at Nasa says the space agency compromised safeguards to meet an unrealistic launch date for the shuttle Discovery.
The most peaceful invasion of all time.
- German tabloid Bild, as 350,000 Catholics gather in Cologne, where Pope Benedict XVI begins a tour of his native Germany.
She's walking and talking. I don't know if she's going to be hanging from a disco ball anytime soon.
- Liz Rosenberg, a spokeswoman for Madonna, after the superstar fell from a horse at her country home, cracking three ribs and breaking a collarbone and a hand.
The lions are used to seeing saloons and family cars on a daily basis. But they had never seen a Smart before.
- David Ross, manager of Knowsley Safari Park, in the UK, says lions have been prowling after Smart cars in the belief that the tiny vehicles are prey.
Beneath the healthy projection of economic growth in the coming year, there are worrying indications of vulnerability.
- Richard Bruton, Fine Gael finance spokesman, says the economy is more fragile than it has been for many years.
The camera doesn't lie. The situation in Niger is a cock-up by the international community and if the UN was representing the international community then it was the UN that cocked up.
- John O'Shea of aid agency Goal suggests the UN was slow in responding to famine in Niger.
He was such a delicate little man, very quiet, but lovely and friendly.
- A neighbour of Oliver Leacy, from Leixlip, Co Kildare, who was punched and kicked to death in an unprovoked attack.
I didn't get the vibe he was hitting on me or anything. He just seemed really nice.
- Josefin Justin, a Swedish waitress, after a customer tipped her with his car - a Porsche.
There seems no end in sight. With oil prices still rising, petrol and diesel prices are only going to get worse.
- Conor Faughnan, AA public affairs manager.