I relish the opportunity of explaining to the DPP that maybe it might be a little bit possible that the legal team to the tribunal might be just a little bit wrong in this matter.
- Dublin West TD Mr Liam Lawlor, speaking after he failed to comply with an order to give evidence at the Flood tribunal
Every citizen and every member of the Oireachtas has a legal, moral and democratic duty to co-operate with the tribunal.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern
You'll be able to phone your fridge when you're in the supermarket and ask it how much milk you need.
- Electrolux's Michael Klein, speaking about the new "fridge with a brain"
I just have to believe they're not going to let this thing spin out of control.
- President Clinton, speaking about the continuing unrest in the Middle East
I don't care if I die. If I die, my brothers and friends will avenge me.
- One of the Palestinian youths at a Beirut camp who had been hurling grenades and stones at Israeli soldiers
No one can tell me this trial by television works. It will let those involved escape justice.
- Laurence Rushe, who lost his wife in the Omagh bombing, criticising the BBC's decision to reveal names of the alleged bombers on Panorama
Complain to Daddy
- Slogans sprayed on the walls of a boutique owned by Slobodan Milosevic's son
The man who tried to destroy partition is helping to administer Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom on behalf of her majesty and on the basis of British law. This is the real seismic shift.
- The North's First Minister, Mr David Trimble, on Mr Martin McGuinness
If you're up at 5.30 every morning with your three-year-old, watching a video is the easy option and it's remarkable how many times grown-ups will hear the same lines.
- BBC's Ms Gillian Laskier, commenting on research which found that phrases from children's shows, such as Teletubbies and Fireman Sam, were better known by many adults than classic lines of literature
I would do it again.
- Mr Jim McDowell of the Sunday World, speaking after the newspaper settled an action by Lord Mayor of Belfast Mr Sammy Wilson, who took the newspaper to court for showing pictures of him and his girlfriend in the nude
We were wrong and he was right.
- Mayor of Kilkenny Mr Paul Cuddihy announcing that a public apology will be made to the late Hubert Butler, a writer who was shunned in Kilkenny in 1952 for high- lighting the link between the Catholic Church and Nazi genocide in Yugoslavia
They showed great tolerance and great patience. They allowed him to go a considerable distance.
- Supt Shelley explaining the Emergency Response Unit's reasons for shooting Mr John Carthy