"Seriously weak and still deteriorating," - Mr Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, on the US economy.
"I'd be worried," - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on the threat to the economy posed by the US economic slowdown.
"As serious an offence of perjury as I have had experience of and have been able to find in the books," - Mr Justice Potts, sentencing millionaire novelist and former MP Lord Archer to four years in jail for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
"Yes" - cry in the public gallery when the Archer verdict was read out.
"This is very much the same old conflict," - Ms Margot Wallstrom, EU Environment Commissioner, at the Climate Change Summit in Bonn, on the issue of trees being used as "sinks" for carbon dioxide emissions.
"There must be a lot of people in Ireland who are sitting on a fortune and won't even know it," - Ms Poppy Collinson, manager of Fraser's Autographs, who were in Dublin this week, and who are selling John Lennon's autograph for £25,000 sterling.
"The recent upsurge in street violence, disorder and public drunkenness is not only leading to injury and, as we have seen, death for young people, it is seriously damaging the quality of life in many communities," - Mr Brendan Howlin, Labour's justice spokesman, on a Garda report on tackling alcohol abuse by young people.
"A man who shouted `fascists' at gardai was fined £100 at Thomastown court." He was fined "for being so drunk that he might endanger himself or others" - A report in the Kilkenny People.
A "carefully considered dismissal" - Ms Kathryn Sinnott on the judgment by the Supreme Court to overturn a High Court decision that the State was obliged to pro- vide primary education for her autistic son, Jamie (23).
"What will Philip Morris argue next, that we should put people down at 50 because it would save us all a lot of money on healthcare," - Ms Michelle di Leo, of the British Lung Foundation, on a report by the tobacco company, which said that early deaths of smokers saves the Czech government money.
"She did not break the glass ceiling for women. She smashed it to smithereens," - a friend of Ms Katharine Graham, pubisher of the Washington Post, who died this week, aged 84.
"I really think the time has come for me to seek other things to do," - Mr Michael Portillo, who announced he would never again sit on a Tory front bench after he failed to make the final ballot in the Tory leadership battle.
"We spoke to him on Friday and he said he was having the time of his life. He was in Alice Springs and said they were planning to go up country," - Mr Paul Falconio, brother of Mr Peter Falconio, who is missing, feared dead, in an Australian outback shooting.
"We absolutely fear for the worst here," - Mr Bob Fields, regional commander of the Northern Territory police, on Mr Falconio's disappearance.
It "stretched credulity to the absolute limit" - Mr Pat Hanratty SC, for the Flood tribunal, on the contention by builder Mr Tom Brennan that a £50,000 payment to former minister Mr Ray Burke was a political donation.
"I think it's bad to have to queue. If you already have a work permit, why do you have to stand here? You are not illegal if you come here with a work permit," - Janne, an Estonian shop assistant, on the increasingly long wait to have documents processed at the Aliens Registration Office in Dublin.
"I really admire his lyrics and I like his tunes, though he never had much of a voice," - Mr Andy Bowden, from Kilkenny, on Bob Dylan, who played in Kilkenny last weekend.