The Government accepts that there must be significant front loading. – Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on what to expect from the budget
Mr Chairman, over the past 13 years, we have grown old together here in Dublin Castle. I am tired and weary. – Michael Lowry pleading with Moriarty tribunal chairman, Mr Justice Michael Moriarty, to have an interim award for his legal costs to date
How is it right for you to occupy our countries and kill our women and children and expect to live in peace and security?– Osama bin Laden in a new audio message directed to France
It is going to be painful for people in receipt of social welfare. – Minister of State Barry Andrews on what's coming down the line . . .
I'm used to taking physical pain but this is kind of mental torture. – Boxer Bernard Dunne on running the Dublin marathon
. . .the most important event of his life, a vision of Jesus Christ. – Anthony Jordan, author of Éamon de Valera – Irish, Catholic, Visionary, on what he says happened to his subject in Blackrock College
Yes, we can, but it is not going to happen overnight.– President Barack Obama holds to his election campaign slogan during an interview with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show marking his first two years' in office