Whether we bring our enemies to justice or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
- President Bush, in a special address to the two houses of the US Congress
Now that war has been declared on us, we will lead the world to victory. Victory.
- President Bush
We are alive to the gravity of the situation and I know that in the lives of nations such situations do arise as require the taking of important decisions.
- President Musharraf of Pakistan on the request for co-operation by the United States
It is a very fearful situation and I have definitely to admit it is something I never felt before.
- Mr Robert Monin, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Afghanistan, as he made his way out of the country
The era of antiseptic warfare is over.
- Mr Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, after he made it clear America had shaken off its fear of military casualties
If the Americans go to war I pity those boys . . .Vietnam will be a picnic by comparison.
- Yuri Shamanov, former Soviet colonel who fought in Afghanistan
We sincerely hope that the great American people could differentiate between the people of Afghanistan and a handful of fundamentalist terrorists.
- Statement from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
It is an easy thing to bomb territories where people are in famine, but that will not do much to crush international terrorism.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, talking about Afghanistan
The worst terrorist attack there has been on British citizens since the second World War.
- Mr Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
We are ready to cry.
- Mr Finbar McCarthy, a publican in Milwaukee, after his flight home from Ireland was cancelled
We received a wake-up call from hell.
- Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister, on the attacks
May I be bold enough to remind him \the Taoiseach of the Fianna Fβil tradition of Jack Lynch, of George Colley, of Seβn Lemass and of Eamon de Valera. They recognised, as Fine Gael does, that Ireland at its best is a collection of communities.
- Mr Michael Noonan, Fine Gael leader, after he accused Fianna Fβil of falling into a "Harney/McCreevy Thatcherite trap"
The philosopher, architect and ultimately symbol of peace.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, of Mr John Hume who announced his decision to quit as SDLP leader
I am 65 years of age now. I have been at the coalface. While all great things mature with age the energy may not be in the bottle to the extent that is needed.
- Mr Seamus Mallon, SDLP deputy leader, announcing he would not be contesting the party leadership
I'm afraid now.
- Schoolgirl Amy Lindsey (10) after a protester pretended to shoot her with his finger as she walked to school in Ardoyne.
There has been abuse given out. People standing in Paisley masks and abusing the parents and frightening the children.
- Mr Gerry Kelly, Sinn FΘin, on the loyalist protesters at Holy Cross school, Ardoyne
We need. . .a beginning to actual decommissioning. No other single act would have greater impact. . .for the peace process.
- US government response to the latest IRA statement on its re-engagement with the decommissioning body
I'm a pretty good dad. I must be the only father who bangs on the bedroom door saying "Turn that music up!"
- Rock star Alice Cooper (53)