I feel good, good. I'm very happy. I'm going home now.
- Retired farmer Mr James Howard after Ms Beverley Cooper-Flynn was ordered by the High Court to pay the entire costs of her unsuccessful action for damages
The banks acted disgracefully. Banks actively facilitated and encouraged evasion of taxes at a time when acute public services were being closed down.
- Mr Jim Mitchell, outgoing chairman of the Dail Public Accounts Committee
I am here to discuss what happened in 1972 when the paratroopers murdered people in Derry.
- Mr Joseph McColgan, disputing the relevance of questions at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry about his 1990 conviction for conspiring to attempt to receive and export a Stinger missile without a licence
We have introduced a round that independent experts have concluded is, on balance, a great deal safer than the existing one.
- The Northern Secretary, Dr John Reid, on a new type of plastic bullet
These were clever, intelligent dogs. They were working as a pair.
- Mr Tomas Griffin, after he was attacked by two Alsatian dogs in Killarney. An elderly woman was hospitalised following an attack by the same pair
She finally figured out a way to get people to stop looking at her butt.
- Jay Leno on Jennifer Lopez's see- through top at the Oscars
It's not normal practice to play bumper cars in the air.
- Admiral Denis Blair, commander of US Pacific Forces, after a US reconnaissance aircraft collided with a Chinese fighter jet
If we were in a similar situation, we'd probably be on the plane.
- Mr George Tenet, director of the CIA, of the desire by the Chinese to board and examine the spy plane
We cannot and must not forget the chilling images of terrified women and children herded onto trains, emaciated prisoners interned behind barbed wire and mass graves unearthed by UN investigators.
- President Bush, after the arrest of Mr Slobodan Milosevic
Whatever I do in life, if I die at 90, people will say, "He was the chap who gave that speech 74 years ago."
- Mr William Hague, Conservative leader
I did it mainly to relieve me of the bondage of self. It was the right time to do it - but I couldn't hate it more. I hide behind my hair, it's my shield. I'm taking every horse vitamin there is to make it grow faster.
- Actress Jennifer Aniston, on her new hairdo
The point is that people don't make their point where people can't see them.
- Mr Eric Byrne, Labour councillor, on Dublin Corporation's proposed restrictions on protests in O'Connell Street
Finally and perhaps most importantly, he was in the very advanced stages of carrying out further terrorist attacks.
- Israeli security source of Islamic militant Mr Mohammed Abdelal, killed in a missile attack by an Israeli helicopter gunship in Gaza
I've earned £3 million playing snooker and I'd say I've done £1 million gambling, which is quite sick.
- Jimmy White
I'm sorry for my wife's sake.
- Julius Viel (83), a former SS lieutenant, after he was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for the murder of seven Jewish prisoners at Theresienstadt concentration camp
People are always asking me for advice about love, but all I can say is that you've got to question everything about a person, because people are mischievous, very complicated, believe me.
- Singer Barry White