I was beholden to none of them and they were not beholden to me - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern reveals he received €50,000 from friends in 1993.
There's no point in comparing yourself to the man on Hill 16 - Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny says Mr Ahern's man of the people image no longer convinces.
I would be Superman and give all the children of the world a chance to live their dreams. -Bill Clinton, in Dublin, explains why, if he had the chance to be a super-hero, he would choose to be Superman.
We know all about Croke Park and of course we would love to have a Champions League final there. -Lars-Christer Olsson, chief executive of Uefa, European soccer's governing body, says the GAA headquarters could one day host the Champions League final.
It's high time that the world understood that the Muslims are 1.5 billion people. They have their own concerns - their own culture - and they are vastly moderate. Don't lump Muslims together and assume they are extremists. - Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf.
Mr Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we will see two more years of extraordinarily bad decision-making. - Maj Gen Paul Eaton, a retired officer who was in charge of training Iraqi troops, calls for new leadership in the Pentagon.
I don't have to worry about her running off with the bloke next door - British prime minister Tony Blair jokes about his wife Cherie's famously testy relationship with UK chancellor Gordon Brown.
Everyone is crying. My kids are crying. My grandkids keep calling me, crying. This is horrible. - Songwriter Paul Vance, who co-wrote Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, is mildly miffed by news reports of his death.
We thought it was just wedding jitters. -Nicky Heys from Bristol who gave birth just five hours before tying the knot.
I thought he would fall out of a tree. He thought it would be a car accident. - Terri Irwin says she and her late husband, crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, always believed he would die young, but not at the hands of a dangerous animal.
I've bought a car. - What three-year-old Jack Neal told his parents after buying a Barbie pink Nissan Figaro on eBay.
Where are your armies? You've got plenty of them because all of the tyrants you represent have plenty of them, but where are they? - Bob Geldof calls on the Arab world to intervene in Darfur.
During the 82 days that the Dáil was on holidays, 70 people were killed on Irish roads but has any politician raised that issue this week on their return to Leinster House? Quite frankly, politicians in this case have been asleep at the wheel. - John O'Neill, president of the Irish Insurance Federation.
You could tell that he wanted the females. He tapped me on the shoulder and he told me to leave the room. I told him, 'I don't want to leave.' He told me that if I didn't go then he would pretty much kill me. - Cassidy Grigg, a student at the Colorado school where gunman Duane R Morrison took six girls hostage, killing one before turning the gun on himself.