It is not yet the end, it perhaps is not yet the beginning of the end, but it is certainly the end of the beginning.
- Jamie Shea, NATO spokesman, echoing Winston Churchill
The planning, preparation and execution of the campaign undertaken by forces of the FRY [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] and Serbia in Kosovo, was planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted by Slobodan Milosevic.
- Indictment of the United Nations International War Crimes Tribunal
Whenever we are at the threshold of peace or a peaceful solution, NATO and its allies will find a way to put a stick in it.
- Branko Brankovic, Belgrade's representative to the UN, on the tribunal's decision
If we as a nation are not willing to shed our blood to help the Kosovars, then it is time to disabuse ourselves of the notion that we can prevent genocide, actual or psychic. All we can do, using our present methods, is proliferate havoc.
- Writer Norman Mailer
[I] created stories which simply weren't true in a attempt to . . . impress them.
- Former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio on his secretly recorded comments to News of the World reporters that he took and supplied illegal drugs
He's been a right prat, foolish and stupid. He has dropped everybody right in it . . . I think he has suffered enough. We should look after him and let him get on with his life.
- England coach Clive Woodward on Dallaglio
He believed that if you had somebody who was your bitter enemy you put them as close to you as you can, where, went his theory, it's more difficult for them to manoeuvre the knife into your back.
- Terry Keane of Charles Haughey, with whom she had a 27-year relationship
He was the most married man I ever met. I might as well have had a crush on Jesus Christ.
- Receptionist Merri Cheyne on her night in a hotel bedroom with Lenny Henry, with whom she said she did not have sex
The world is a less happy place than it was yesterday. There is a taste of dirt in my mouth.
- DJ Chris Tarrant after the publication in the Sun newspaper of pictures of him with Sophie Rhys-Jones, Prince Edward's fiancee
We clearly upset Ms Rhys-Jones. It's clear to me that we have caused her great distress. I have therefore decided to apologise to her. I believe this is the right thing to do.
- Sun editor David Yelland
The purpose in having the queen in Cardiff and Edinburgh is to kill off the suggestion that devolution is a means of ending the Union. The reason for not having the queen in Belfast is because that's not the message the Labour Party wants to convey in Northern Ireland . . . because the opposite is the purpose.
- DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson, on the British government decision not to involve Queen Elizabeth in any ceremony for the formal opening of the NI Assembly following the devolution of powers
I just could not take it in and it happened so quickly. When it went to 1-1, Steve McLaren [Ferguson's assistant] said to me we should regroup back to a 4-4-2 for extra time. But I said this game isn't finished - and it wasn't.
- Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson on his team's defeat of Bayern Munich in the European Cup Final