This is not only a death with all the sadness that brings, it is a killing, and for that we grieve.
- Father Frank Pavone announces the death in Florida of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman whose condition sparked a legal and political battle
We always look first if the person is able to make decisions and if the person is able to communicate. If these conditions are fulfilled we can help them.
- Ludwig Minelli, founder of Dignitas, the Swiss right-to-die organisation which facilitated the assisted suicide of a man from Dublin
Hell, no!
- UN secretary general Kofi Annan declines to resign over the alleged irregularities in the organisation's oil-for-food programme in Iraq
We went down to the street and people began to panic.
Some people screamed "Water! Water! The water is coming again."
- Yudisia Arafah, a 23-year-old Indonesian government worker, describes the scene in Banda Aceh after Monday's earthquake
Our members feel they are patsies now. They are being the convenient fall guys.
- Kevin McMahon, the security workers' representative at Siptu after raiders stole €2.5 million from a security van while the driver had stopped for a coffee
If the motorway is constructed as currently planned, what does that say to the world about the cultural sensitivity of the Government?
- A statement from 85 academics and scholars from around the world on the Government's decision to approve the construction of a motorway through the Tara-Skryne valley
Obviously it's a disappointment, a huge disappointment, not alone to me, but to my friends, staff, colleagues and sponsors and indeed to the country.
- Olympic show- jumper Cian O'Connor (left) is stripped of his gold medal
The role of young men in society is no longer clearly defined.
Because everything in their popular culture tells them it is "cool" to be dumbed down and laddish, young men suffer enormous peer pressure to underachieve and to opt out.
- Susie Hall, president of the teachers' union, ASTI, says the decline in male teachers is leaving many young men without adequate role models in the classroom
I hate doing this. Bloody people. I can't bear them.
- What Prince Charles was overheard saying as he appeared before the press during the British royals' annual skiing trip to Klosters, Switzerland