This Week They Said

It is time for him to go

It is time for him to go. He must quit as president - Benazir Bhutto former Pakistani prime minister, says Gen Pervez Musharraf should step down.

It looks like the sea is coming to grab us - Moulvi Feroze Ahmed, a government official on an island in the Bay of Bengal, describing Tropical Cyclone Sidr.

Peace is an accident, war is natural. Old men start it, young men fight it, everybody in the middle dies, and nobody tells the truth - Sylvester Stallone ahead of the release of his latest Rambo sequel, in which the Vietnam veteran character helps refugees in Burma.

Why don't you shut up? -   King Juan Carlos of Spain to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at a summit in Chile.

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Let them scatter my ashes over the Shannon and pollute the river. - Angela's Ashesauthor Frank McCourt says he wants his ashes scattered in his native Limerick.

They discussed video games and shared videos with each other. Obviously, Columbine was a shared topic of interest. - David Farrell, a lawyer for Dillon Cossey, an American teenager, who talked online with Finnish school gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen and planned his own shooting spree.

Ninety per cent of people in the loyalist community don't want decommissioning. - Jackie McDonald, a UDA "commander", says the Ulster Freedom Fighters is standing down and putting its weapons "beyond use". The UFF stopped short of a commitment to decommissioning.

It has just gone from shock to shock to aftershock. There is a stillness in the whole town. - Omagh councillor John McGowan after a house fire kills a family of seven.

We cannot continue the current engagement in never-ending processes that have no outcome other than to create endless uncertainty for our customers, employees and investors. - Dermot Mannion, Aer Lingus chief executive. The airline says it will suspend ground operation and cabin crew staff who are members of Siptu from the payroll from next Tuesday unless they provide a written undertaking not to participate in industrial action planned by the union.

Let me tell you something. First of all, if you're booing you're a mug for buying a ticket. Second, to all those booing, just wait till my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that. - A worse-for-wear Amy Winehouse after being booed on stage in Birmingham.

In addition to my doubts about his integrity, we didn't get on very well. I would have been seen as "southside urban man", tall and relatively good looking, while he would have been seen as "northside urban man", small and not conventionally attractive. - Former Fianna Fáil minister David Andrews offers his thoughts on Charles Haughey in his autobiography.