This Week They Said

A selection of quotes from around the world

A selection of quotes from around the world

We are passing through a stage where there is no central state and where no one is dealing with law and order.

Lieut-Col Saad Jasim of the fledgling Iraqi Civil Defence Corps.

I saw papers that show the US knew al-Qaeda would attack cities with aeroplanes.

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Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator.

It hurts an awful lot more when it's your son that is being criticised than when they used to get all over my case.

George Bush snr defends his son.

David Trimble thinks that the public are naive and they will believe his unfounded, unproven and cowardly accusations.

Geraldine Finucane, widow of Pat Finucane, as the Ulster Unionist leader suggests the murdered solicitor may have had paramilitary links.

There is a bit of a myth that the law doesn't apply in here. It does.

An Oireachtas spokeswoman after Fine Gael TD John Deasy lights up in the Dáil bar.

You and a number of your people tried to cash in and when you didn't get your way you tried to make certain I didn't get it off the ground.

Property developer Tom Gilmartin says former TD Liam Lawlor tried to stymie his plans for a project in south Dublin.

Will the British government be given a veto over the rights of the people of Ireland and over Irish Government action in its own territory?

Greg O'Neill, a solicitor for the families of victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings after an Oireachtas committee says crucial information on the attacks may be in the possession of British security forces.

Google is going after Bill Gates.

Computer analyst Hellen Omwando as search engine Google launches a rival to Microsoft's Hotmail email.

We have always had a few pilferers who broke down a few artichokes to take home and eat. But these people know what they are doing.

Pierre Lopez, a farmer in Perpignan, as organised artichoke "rustlers" strike across the south of France.

Broadcasting from an underground bunker 3,500 ft below Dick Cheney's bunker, Air America is on the air.

Satirist Al Franken ushers in the United State's first overtly left-wing radio station, which aims to challenge the right's dominance of the airwaves.

They were hungry and annoyed and they refused to answer our questions. But after they ate the bananas, they answered the questions.

Yim Simony, a Cambodian policeman, denies any wrongdoing after being accused of extracting confessions from two teenagers by force-feeding them bananas until they felt sick.

This product is not intended for use as an aftershave or for communicating with aquatic mammals.

A warning in packaging for a computer mouse.

I think my security and my safety and my life is a little bit more important than tennis.

Serena Williams fears for her safety at the Athens Olympics.

In Elvis, you have the blueprint for rock'n'roll: the highness, the gospel highs. The mud, the Delta mud, the blues. Sexual liberation. Controversy. Changing the way people feel about the world. It's all there with Elvis.

Bono says Elvis is a rock'n'roll immortal.

Malign, mean-spirited and provocative.

The Communication Workers' Union as An Post refuses to guarantee the future of 89 temporary staff laid off during the postal dispute.