I won't speculate on how the IRA will view it, but we can tell that the IRA will not be pleased.
- Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein, after a bugging device was found in a car he used during the Mitchell review
Was he surprised? Mr Adams's colleagues have long been adept at intercepting other people's communications.
- David Trimble, Northern Ireland First Minister
I can do what I like: if I want to be killed by a falling tree, I can.
- A young eco-warrior to gardai as they removed her from the path of a tree that was about to be felled
The Budget was not and is not a mistake.
- Mary Harney
The £125 million is bigger than some budgets we have had in recent memory in their totality.
- The Fine Gael spokesman on finance, Michael Noonan, of the Budget changes
Either we're in a social partnership or we're not.
- Des Geraghty, SIPTU president, after his union withdrew from national pay talks in protest over the Budget
A correction in this column yesterday was itself incorrect.
- Notice in the Corrections and Clarifications section of The Irish Times
The hypocrisy evident in the gap between his patriotic rhetoric and his unprincipled practice strengthens the notion that he merely used ideology as a convenient cover for self-enrichment.
- Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times columnist, of Charles Haughey
I'm sure she's as good at reading as anyone else.
- Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, literary agent, on the choice of Jerry Hall as a judge for Whitbread Book of the Year
I have no time for feminists who say doing this degrades a woman's dignity. - Yukta Mookhey, Miss In- dia, who won the Miss World competition last weekend
Get out or die.
- Russian army warning to residents of Grozny
Russia will pay a heavy price for those actions.
- President Clinton, in a warning to Russia of the consequences of its campaign in Chechnya
I want to tell Clinton not to forget what kind of a world he lives in. It has never been and never will be the case that he will dictate to the whole world . . . We will dictate to the world.
- Boris Yeltsin, Russian President
Patten is absolutely unambiguous on the issue. He authoritatively states his reasons for the name change. Failure to adopt a new name, badge and new symbols would undermine the confidence of nationalists.
- Alex Attwood, SDLP, warning against a retreat on the Patten proposals
The lesson of Ulster is not that peace works but that violence pays.
- Tory peer Lord Tebbit
Up The Concerned Parents.
- John Fitzpatrick, anti- drugs vigilante, after he was jailed for 7 1/2 years for his role in the manslaughter of Josie Dwyer (42)
The final "score": MESSIAH XXI: 00; MESSIAH XVIII: 1742.
- Tony Forde, Skerries, Dublin, in a letter to The Irish Times