This isn't about new information. This is about ritualistically presenting what we already know. - Robert Thompson, head of Syracuse University's Centre for the Study of Popular Television on US networks' coverage of the first anniversary of September 11th.
The IBTS acknowledges and regrets all death and injury caused by products that were supposed to bring a better quality of life to people.
- The Irish Blood Transfusion Service expresses remorse in the wake of the Lindsay Tribunal report
They need to know, "Are you prepared to commit, are you prepared to be there, and when the shooting starts are you prepared to be there?"
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledges his support for US military intervention in Iraq.
The A-team of terrorists.
- US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's assessment of Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Where there is a conflict between the law of the land and canon law you have to obey the law of the land as far as I am concerned.
- Bishop of Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh.
I love the way the city looks, minus all the council estates randomly and profusely built up everywhere.
- Madonna on her adopted home, London.
The Bush administration has been the single biggest obstacle toward achieving progress at this summit.
- A spokesman for environmental group Friends of the Earth at the end of the Johannesburg Earth Summit.
As long as people keep giving it legs, then this thing will run and run and run.
- Ireland manager Mick McCarthy on the Roy Keane saga.
Dr Dolittle.
- A placard greeting Northern Secretary Dr John Reid as he tours east Belfast, scene of ongoing sectarian conflict.
Radical Maoists of one type or another.
- Outgoing Labour leader Ruairí Quinn on the coalition of business executives who backed Mary Robinson's Presidential election campaign.
This isn't a second-rate city that should be taking our name from a cartoon show.
- Albuquerque Mayor Marin Chavez on the decision to name its new baseball franchise after a fictional team from the cartoon series The Simpsons.
It was misleading and it was irritating. There are a lot of great stories out there. We didn't need a fake one.
- Women's Tennis Association spokesman Chris De Maria as American glossy Sports Illustrated publishes a slavering profile of a nubile - and fictional - young tennis player.
We want people to have an extraordinary experience of tasting, feeling and smelling.
- Mr Manfred Scharbach, manager of the Unsicht-Bar in Berlin, where patrons have the pleasure of dining in total darkness.