The problem is not just that President Bush is changing his story now, it is that it appears he was telling the American people stories in 2002.Senator John Kerry, Democrat presidential hopeful
This is the first we've heard that we're working on a story that we're not working on.
Leonard Downie, executive editor of the Washington Post, on claims by the Drudge Report, the online scandal sheet, that the newspaper is investi- gating claims that Mr Kerry had an affair
My belief at this point is that they were part of a network of Nazi war-loot dealers.
Erin Gibbons, a museum consultant and archaeologist, says the couple who amassed the Hunt Museum collection in Limerick had business connections with art dealers linked to the main art agents for Hitler and Goering
I think that collusion did exist.
The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, believes Northern Ireland security forces helped loyalists carry out the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which killed 33
He did not tell me anything else about the source of that sum, nor did I know.
Mayo TD Beverley Cooper Flynn tells the Dáil that her father, the former minister and European commissioner, Padraig Flynn, asked her to invest £25,000 weeks after she started working for National Irish Bank. She denies helping Mr Flynn evade tax
Human cloning technology using embryonic stem cells is very last-century. We do not need it.
Dr Patrick Dixon, a human cloning expert
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security.
Mohamed Elbaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency
To have flour, water and fire doesn't mean you have bread.
Abdul Shalgam, Libyan Foreign Minister, says his country never developed nuclear weapons
Ulysses could have done with a good editor.
Author Roddy Doyle
It was uncomfortable up there on the cross. Very windy. I almost blew over.
Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson's controversial Christ biopic, The Passion of the Christ
Germany is a very normal European country. I don't think we should be raised as humiliated, mentally disturbed garden gnomes.
Thor Kunkel, the German author, voicing his fears that the publishing contract for his book, Endstuff, which is about the Nazi porn industry in the 1940s, has been cancelled for ideological reasons
Many young people are living off emptiness and soap operas.
Bishop Martin Drennan, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin
This is Fallujah. What do you expect?
Gen John Abizaid, head of US Central Command in Iraq, narrowly escapes a grenade attack in Fallujah, a hotbed of anti-US sentiment.
Michael is an individual who has the ability to generate huge sums of money.
Michael Jackson's manager, Charles Koppelman, denies the singer is facing bankruptcy with debts of $37 million
He physically seized my travel pass, which was required to allow me to get a ticket, and refused to return it.
Labour TD Joe Sherlock accuses an Iarnród Éireann inspector of over-reacting when he boarded a train without a ticket
There's a certain rivalry between Sting, myself and Elton \. Elton's always having a go about my nose and my hair, and I'm always having a go about his waistline and his lack of hair.
Singer Rod Stewart