To all who wear the uniform, I make you this pledge: America will not run in the face of car-bombers and assassins so long as I am your commander-in-chief. President Bush saying he will not set a date for withdrawal from Iraq.
I offered him tea. He said: "Don't worry, we'll find him."
Majella Holohan recalling a conversation with neighbour Wayne O'Donoghue after her son, Robert, went missing. O'Donoghue is on trial for the murder of the boy.
The quality of Mersey is not strained.
Conservative MP Boris Johnson speaking at a reception for a new parliamentary group set up to promote the city of Liverpool. He was previously criticised when the magazine he edits accused the city of "wallowing" in grief over the murder of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley.
I think it is intrinsically homophobic. I think it is a slap in the face for all normal gay clergy who have served the Catholic Church well over the past centuries.
Brian Finnegan, editor of Gay Community News, commenting on the Vatican's move to bar men with deep-seated homosexual tendencies from becoming priests.
I'm a bit in shock, but this shows people are ready for women to play a role.
Lama Sulaiman, one of two women voted on to a Saudi Arabian chamber of commerce. They are the first women to win office in the country.
These companies are trying to hang on to markets. They are in a position where they will not be able to meet the sales demand, and there are other competitors who are just waiting for the opportunity.
John Whelan, of the Irish Exporters' Association, saying that the Irish Ferries dispute could cost manufacturing jobs.
These days, parents go on a lot of business trips. But, with children, hugging and touching are very important.
Scientist Adrian David Cheok, designer of "cyber-cuddle" pyjamas, which enable parents to "hug" their children by remote control.
He laughed these things off on the surface, but I know they had a profound effect on him. He believed this was what he was going to face for the rest of his life, that he was always going to be seen first as a gay man.
Carol Doherty, from Buncrana, saying that her brother Alan's suicide was prompted by taunts and bullying over his sexuality.
Some people don't like the drink and the drugs, the constant camera surveillance and the possibility of bullying or theft, so they prefer to sleep rough.
Mark Grehan, of the homelessness organisation Street Seen, saying some homeless people believe it is safer to sleep on the street than in a hostel.
I'd hate to be remembered as that. I don't like the idea of being picked as a number.
Kenneth Lee Boyd, who this week became the 1,000th person to be executed in the US since the return of the death penalty in 1976.
We have since called the court to inform them that the president has other commitments on Monday and that he would like to reschedule his jury duty.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan speaking after president George W. Bush was listed for jury duty in Texas.
The British government is currently giving an amnesty for IRA members, but they won't provide pardons for these soldiers, and this is absolute hypocrisy.
Fine Gael Senator Brian Hayes saying that Britain should pardon the 26 Irish volunteers shot for desertion during the first World War.
I have lost my daughter and now I have no more children.
Liliane Degauque, from Charleroi, Belgium, whose daughter Muriel, a convert to Islam, became Europe's first female suicide-bomber.
The military regime seeks not only to break down the identity of former political prisoners, but also to make them walking advertisements for the consequences of speaking out against the regime.
A report by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners saying that state torture is part of daily life in Burma.
They just left a big hole out there.
Johnny Grant, honorary mayor of Hollywood, after thieves stole Gregory Peck's "star" from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.