The ban will go into effect next year, and schoolgirls 10 years and older will be required to wear knee-length skirts.
- A Swaziland government official announcing the country's ban on short skirts in a bid to halt the spread of AIDS
There isn't much out there for him. It would be very clever of him to reverse a bad decision and just come back.
- Dr Charles Smith, medical director of the Central Mental Hospital, encouraging patient John Gallagher to return to the hospital
God, it's hard.
- President Clinton, briefing journalists during the Middle East peace talks
Pay and the story rolls, steal and the story folds.
- Writer Stephen King explaining the background to the publication of his new book. It will be published in instalments on the Internet and readers will be asked to send a dollar for each chapter
I've never done anything like that in my life.
- Mrs Carmel Masterson (52) reflecting on her reasons for preventing a train from leaving Westport station. She sat on a chair on the track for four hours in support of her husband who is an ILDA member
As a judge, I was obliged to resolve the question openly, honestly, logically, responsibly and in a manner which, legally, could not be impugned. This I did.
- Judge Donnchadh O Buachalla, defending his actions on the transfer of pub licence from Jack White's Inn to Catherine Nevin's name
People are being urged not to co-operate with the commission because, wrongly, the impression has been given that I am in some way implicated in inquiries relating to child abuse in Britain.
- Mr Bob Lewis, explaining his reasons for resigning from the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse before it had started its main work
Mr Burke is going to deny absolutely everything that was said.
- Mr Aidan Walsh SC for Mr Ray Burke, speaking at the Flood tribunal after former Century Radio boss Mr James Stafford alleged he had been told that radio licences could be bought from Mr Burke
We are creating a police system in Northern Ireland to serve all the people, not a police service to satisfy Sinn Fein.
- UUP Deputy leader Mr John Taylor, speaking about the possible loss of the RUC title
Our thoughts and prayers are with you. In memory of Sarah from all at Sussex police.
- The message on a bouquet of daisies for Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old girl whose body was found by Sussex police on Monday
So could I have been mixed up? I believe I would have been and could have been.
- Mr Ben Dunne, telling the Moriarty tribunal that he may not have been mentally stable when he gave Mr Charles Haughey £20,000