This Week They Said

President Clinton was often known as the first black president

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.John Kerry, who will be the Democratic challenger for the US presidency.

It came down to a bit of social discomfort. Too many people you know a little bit in one room. That's what this is.

Actor Sean Penn on why he has always avoided the Oscars until now.

It is a misprint. The advertisement was submitted by us. A mistake happened, but I do not know where.

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Mr Michael Fahey of City Property Services, Galway, which placed an ad specifying "no coloureds".

The agreement cannot take away the pain, but it is the start of the healing process.

Former SDLP leader John Hume urges unionists to reaffirm their commitment to the Good Friday agreement.

All he left us was goodness. That is some legacy to leave at 24.

The President, Mrs McAleese, on Tyrone captain Cormac McAnallen who died suddenly this week.

There was flesh flying, there were bodies flying.

Saad Abdul-Zahara, caretaker of the Iraq mosque where 58 were killed in a bomb attack.

Lost the plot and needs to be brought back on track.

Financier Dermot Desmond's assessment of the Moriarty Tribunal, to which he gave evidence this week.

It's a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people; it is unconscionable.

Monica Gabrielle, whose husband was killed in the World Trade Centre attack, on a re-election ad for President Bush which includes scenes of 9/11.

I lived with the knowledge that I was bugged by Western intelligence agencies.

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

I've never been a happier man than I am right now.

Eric Lemarque, a snowboarder who had both feet amputated after being lost for a week at a California ski-resort.

Same-sex marriage is likely to spread through all 50 states in the coming years. We are going to act.

Bill Frist, majority leader of the US Senate, vows to outlaw gay marriage.

I would expect that from the Mafia, but not in Dublin.

Dr Diarmuid Martin, the coadjutor archbishop, on the rising levels of violence in the capital.

You can't be a vegetarian and eat liver dumplings.

Ryan Berry, author of Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover, says the commonly held belief that the Nazi leader didn't eat meat is wrong.

I'm saying goodbye to you now, because this is it. These are the last days of Pompeii, baby.

The final words of Howard Stern, the New York "shock-jock", as his show is taken off air because of "indecent" comments.

There was no sign of where it had come from and when my wife - who opens all our mail - read it, she hit the roof.

Des Lyver, who received an anonymous Valentine's Day letter promising a "long, honed body", "firm sensuous curves" and a "deep, responsive purr" - from car-maker Jaguar.

You're a man - you wouldn't understand.

Sybil Goldfiner, of Israeli fashion house Comme-Il-Faut, which plans to shoot its summer catalogue at the West Bank security fence, when asked whether she is trivialising a serious issue.

There's a village in England missing its fool. I know where he is.

Theo Paphitis, Millwall soccer club, after Alastair Campbell, former Downing Street press secretary, urges him to stamp out racism among supporters.