The price of indifference would be catastrophic.- Preisdent Bush referring to the war on terror in his annual State of the Union speech
I think Lennox is a coward. I'm going to fight him any time I see him in the streets.
- Mike Tyson, after being refused a licence to box in Nevada
This is big trouble. We are already stretched and, if we are facing women as well as men, it will make it much more difficult for us.
- Israeli source, after a Palestinian woman was killed when the bomb she was carrying exploded
Today, among the proudest words spoken by an American are: "I am a New Yorker."
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York
They are not POWs; they will not be determined to be POWs.
- Mr Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary, talking about the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
In terms of classic paedophilia, as practised by the Greeks for example, where it is an older man introducing a younger man or boy to adult life, I think there can be something to be said for it.
- Senator David Norris
Obviously we're very disappointed in him.
- President Bush, of Mr Yasser Arafat
Either he calls off the thugs ... or he and his key ministers will pay the price.
- Mr Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary, of President Robert Mugabe
I ask you to think of the alternative. It would be to face the world alone.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, on the State's membership of the EU
It appears that Al Qaeda members are smart people, and so for this reason alone they will not come to Iran.
- Iranian reformist satirist Seyyed Ibrahim Nabavi, on why he thinks members of the terrorist network will not seek refuge in Iran. Mr Nabavi has spent time in jail for his unorthodox beliefs
I think Seán will prove extremely valuable in interpreting what they [Sinn Féin] are doing and decoding their language for MPs.
- Mr David Trimble, Northern Ireland First Minister, of Seán O'Callaghan, a former senior IRA member he has hired to monitor SF MPs at Westminster
Everything has been wrecked, destroyed - we're nowhere near where we were a quarter of a century ago.
- Mohammed Murad, UN agriculture official in Afghanistan
Compiled by Seán Archbold.