They have to accept the reality of a powerful, peace-loving and developed Iran.Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's message to the West.
There must be consequences for Iran's defiance and we must not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
US president George W. Bush.
It is very important that young Poles have a chance to follow the national curriculum, get Polish qualifications and learn about their culture.
Slawomir Klosowski, a Polish deputy education minister. The Polish government is to open a school for ex-pats in Ireland.
Everybody who is aware of an offence has a public duty to report it immediately to protect themselves and to prevent it happening in the future.
Minister for Justice Michael McDowell saying that National Irish Bank should have immediately alerted gardaí to a kidnap and a robbery in progress at one of its north Dublin branches.
It is the first time, with all the hype of gene therapy, we have managed to use genetic engineering to treat cancer patients.
Dr Steven Rosenberg, of the US National Cancer Institute, where gene therapy was used to cure two men diagnosed with terminal skin cancer.
The liturgy is not a theatrical text, and the altar is not a stage.
Pope Benedict XVI cautioning priests against hamming up their sermons.
We must not keep wallowing in our despair. If we get through today, and most important if we can get through this hurricane season without getting hit, things will get better.
Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, one year on from Hurricane Katrina.
I am almost crying from happiness.
Gro Balas, chairman of Norway's Munch Museum, after Munch's stolen masterpiece The Scream was recovered.
The success of our system will be an example for other states and nations to follow as the fight against climate change continues.
Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state aims to cut carbon emissions by 25 per cent by 2020.
Ireland is more than Guinness and Guinness is more than Ireland.
Paul Walsh, chief executive of Diageo, which owns Guinness, as new figures showed that consumption of the stout in Ireland had decreased.
Lebanon, which only seven weeks ago was full of hope and promise, has been torn to shreds by destruction, displacement, dispossession, desolation and death.
The prime minister of Lebanon, Fouad Siniora.
It may be a disaster, it could be fantastic, but you don't know until you try.
Elton John on his ambitions to make a hip-hop record.
The IRA probably thought it was going to be their finest hour . . . it was almost our finest hour.
A former UVF leader detailing plans to eliminate the Sinn Féin leadership as they held their 1981 ardfheis in the Mansion House in Dublin.
We fell into each other's arms. I recognised her from her way of being, her face. I always thought she was alive.
Brigitta Sirny, mother of the kidnapped Austrian schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch, reunited with her daughter after eight years.