A look back at the week's news in quotes.
From my moral teachings I found it morally acceptable to do. I like to come here, and he was offering to expense me for my trips, so I agreed to take him up.
US businessman David Rupert tells the Special Criminal Court he agreed to work for the FBI and supply information on Irish republicans.
It must be possible to deal with some of these issues individually through judges or by some other means.
The Taoiseach raises the possibility to moving the Flood tribunal investigation to another forum to avoid the possibility of it running for another 15 years.
I don't think the leader realises the knife-edge he is on.
An Ulster Unionist Party insider suggests David Trimble is living on borrowed time after three Westminster MPs resign the party whip.
A road map for the way ahead.
The Minister for Agriculture, Joe Walsh, says farmers must come to terms with reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
If a yak can make it up there, then a motorcycle should be able to as well.
Annie Seel, who hopes to ascend Mount Everest on a motorcycle and claim the unofficial world record for the highest altitude on a bike.
We are still waiting for responses from our \ in the field and also from those in Israeli prisons.
Mohammad al-Hindi, an Islamic Jihad official, says it is difficult to get consensus to halt attacks on Israel.
He wasn't the brightest thief.
Udo Heppe, a Berlin police spokesman on the burglar who broke into a house through a skylight and, discovering he was too short to climb out, phoned the police.
The latest nonsense from Brussels.
The Sun newspaper on European Commission plans to ban publications, advertisements and television programmes which discriminate against women, including page 3.
It was a frustrating experience. I needed the telephone very badly 27 years ago.
Mohammed Ismall, who applied to the Bangladesh telephone board for a line in 1976, finally gets connected.
Of course, it has been an embarrassment for the government, and lessons have been learnt.
The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, on the controversial dossier on Iraq.
We feel great unease over their goals, and we see that it is necessary that they should make room for Iraqis to rule themselves by themselves without foreign intervention.
Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a leader of Iraq's Shia Muslim majority, on the United States post-war administration.
I'm not going to be no señorita.
Victoria Beckham insists she will commute between Britain and Spain when her husband, David, joins Real Madrid.
There is just not enough regard for the injuries people sustain as a result of violent crime.
Circuit Court Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin calls for the establishment of a violent offenders register.
Still a couple of unions and the Taoiseach are dithering over protecting a monopoly (Aer Rianta) at the expense of the consumer.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary says he will continue to lampoon the Taoiseach in advertisements.