This agreement is as good and as fair as it gets. - The UUP leader, David Trimble, on the Northern peace deal
It sticks in my throat to say it, but a few hundred determined terrorists have brought a government, which spends more than £22 billion a year on defence, to the conference table pleading for peace. What a contrast with the Falklands. - Tory peer Lord Tebbit, who was gravely injured in the Brighton hotel IRA bombing
There are people on both sides who want to disrupt the process, who are committed to the way of violence, and will step up their activities now, at the time of the referendum, and thereafter. - Senator George Mitchell, talks chairman
One of the most significant foreign policy accomplishments in Clinton's five years in office. - The Boston Globe's assessment of the agreement
Sadly, there are always those who are prepared to compromise principles, forsaking the Republic to secure ministerial positions in a British-dominated parliament. - Bernadette Sands McKevitt, a sister of Bobby Sands
The release of prisoners is essential. There will be no settlement while there are republicans in prison. We will not be press-ganged or media-ganged into an agreement. The prisoners issue is central to that. - Sinn Fein ardchomhairle member, Martin Ferris, after the release of nine republicans from Portlaoise Prison
I am gloriously, magnificently, totally wrong. - Kevin Myers on the peace deal
It's not paranoia when they really are against you. I tell you that as a psychiatrist. - Alliance leader Lord Alderdice, during a TV discus- sion on whether unionists were "paranoid" about Sinn Fein
Lots of good people have become lost in the wilderness of Irish politics. But I believed that if anybody could pull it off, it was my husband. He is all that has been written about him. - Heather Mitchell, wife of Senator Mitchell
He brought a breath of fresh air to British industry and he had such a genial personality. - Baroness Thatcher, on the death of Sir Ian McGregor, the businessman who took on Arthur Scargill's striking miners as chairman of the National Coal Board
The Iraqis are people just like you and me and they have children just like us. When we cut them they bleed. We have been cutting them with sanctions for almost eight years now and they are bleeding very profusely indeed. - British Labour MP George Galloway
I'm having difficulty getting the doctors around here to sign the appropriate form. - Spike Milligan, on seeking permission to do a 12,000ft skydive in time for his 80th birthday last Thursday
[The Irish] more than anyone should be able to identify with those who have been downtrodden and struggled and spat upon and stepped upon and who are the outcasts of society, because that's the history of Ireland. - Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island, speaking at a colloquium on Multiculturalism and Racism at DCU
I'm disappointed. I think a lot of Cambodians are disappointed he was not punished. - Jimmy Carter, a former US president, on Pol Pot, who has died
I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym. I don't miss being smacked in the mouth every day. - Barry McGuigan reflects on retirement from the ring