The people should be told that NATO is not facing a breakdown, that Russia will not help Yugoslavia militarily and that the world public opinion is against us.
- Yugoslavia's deputy prime minister, Vuk Draskovic, subsequently dismissed
It shows that inside the system the facade of unity is cracking wide open . . . Milosevic is taking his country into deeper and deeper despair. We are beginning to see the signs of the crack, but it remains to be seen whether the swallow is actually a sign that there is a summer coming.
- British Defence Secretary, George Robertson, on Mr Draskovic's remarks
I suppose a war run by the draft-dodger Clinton and the one-time nuclear disarmer Blair was bound to be a mess. But few could have expected such a tragic muddle as we see now unfolding.
- Tory peer Lord Tebbit
We have not hidden the fact that technology is not perfect. The possibility of a malfunction is always there.
- NATO spokesman Jamie Shea, on the bombing of a residential area in Yugoslavia
They are destroying us, one by one, piece by piece. What do they want from us?
- Belgrade resident Jasminka Radovanovic (30)
God wanted people like me to be saved so that we can tell the world about what happened.
- A Kosovan refugee who survived a massacre in his village despite being doused in petrol and set alight
I don't need publicity. If I fart I get it.
- Sinead O'Connor, after she was ordained a Tridentine priest
It upsets me that there are such brutal people . . . I take great care over home security and about walking home in the dark. But I also know that crimes are very rare. I always tell myself: don't have nightmares, do sleep well.
- Jill Dando, presenter of the BBC's Crimewatch programme, who was murdered this week
I cannot understand for one moment what could go through somebody's mind when they do such a thing to such a beautiful, caring and perfect person.
- Ms Dando's fiance, Alan Farthing
Our view is if you park the peace process there will be no Good Friday agreement to come back to. It will be gone.
- Mitchel McLaughlin, chairman of Sinn Fein
My heart tells me to take it and that's what I've got to let be my judge.
- Kevin Keegan, accepting the job of England coach
No, never. With no disrespect to the Progressive Democrats, but never, never, never in my life did I do anything . . .
- Chief witness at the Flood tribunal, James Gogarty, under cross-examination by his own counsel, denying he made a £1,000 donation to the PDs
His evidence is finished now. I don't know if I'll be here every day from now on. If the weather keeps up I might go swimming.
- Peter Zambra, who attended most sittings of the tribunal, on Mr Gogarty
Did I ever get my kit off? What does that mean?
- British film star Jacqueline Bisset
You know that six years you're serving. When you are let out I'll be waiting for you.
- Victim of Franciscan brother Joseph Keegan, who was given six years for sex abuse
My God, what a woman. If only she were 40 years younger . . . Does she have a daughter?
- Yuri Dorofev, member of the Thatcherite Party of Russia