This is something you would read about in a far-lung country that happened in bygone years. The town of Drogheda is shocked and saddened.
- Councillor Frank Godfrey, after the body of 18-month-old Jack Brennan was found
Friends of Britain be warned - the same could happen to you.
- Baroness Thatcher, after Gen Augusto Pinochet left Britain for Chile. Home Secretary Jack Straw had ruled that the general would not face extradition proceedings
As I was driving through a country district in Jamaica, a child hanging over his garden gate yelled, "White honky [pig]." I yelled back: "Black bastard." We laughed and waved at each other. Relax Britain!
- Judith Reay, Hants, England, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph
If a British government, with all of its military firepower and muscle, could not get an IRA surrender in 30 years of war, then unionist leaders or British ministers cannot expect a Sinn Fein leadership to do it for them.
- Mr Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein president, at the party's internal conference in Dublin last weekend
I know there is disappointment about what has happened and I think it created quite a shock to suspend the institutions, especially when they were going so well.
- The Northern Secretary, Mr Peter Mandelson
I knew Tom and his father before him . . . He was very straight, particularly at difficult times . . . an unswerving friend.
- Former Taoiseach Mr Charles Haughey in a tribute to the late Fianna Fail minister of state Tom McEllistrim
Na bac [Don't bother].
- Mr Haughey, asked about his health at Mr McEllis trim's funeral
I have had enough, I want nothing. My objective is to die . . . I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin.
- Moors murderer Ian Brady, who has begun legal proceedings to win the right to starve himself to death
They did not accidentally kill him. They wrongfully killed him. They executed him - they assassinated him.
- The Rev Jesse Jackson, on the acquittal of four white New York police officers who shot dead a black man, Amadou Diallo
We need to put our arms around him and love him.
- A county prosecutor on how a six-year-old boy accused of killing a girl the same age in Michigan should be treated
I proposed to Neil. It wasn't a question. It was an order.
- Christine Hamilton, wife of former Tory MP Neil Hamilton
I don't have to blame the world; they are doing something. But we need more.
- Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique
I will cherish Radio 4, ensuring it is the best of companions and the most stimulating of friends.
- Ms Helen Boaden, the new controller of BBC Radio 4