If we say somebody's carried the state, you can take that to the bank. Book it!
- Dan Rather, CBS news, on Tuesday night
Circumstances have changed since I first called you. I need to withdraw my concession until the situation is cleared.
- Al Gore's message to George Bush
Let me make sure I understand. You're calling me back to retract your concession.
- George Bush's reported remark to Al Gore
My guess is, I probably got some votes down there [Florida] that really did not belong to me and I do not feel well about that. I don't want to take any votes that don't belong to me.
- Pat Buchanan, Reform Party candidate for US president
You want to know about losing? It stinks. Winning is a lot better.
- Michael Dukakis, one-time US presidential candidate
Fifty years from now there are going to be stories told about this election.
- Al Gore
I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.
- George Bush
There's never been a night like that one.
- Al Gore's campaign chairman of Wednesday's events
Aer Rianta is the last dinosaur and it needs to be sorted out.
- Ryanair's chief financial officer, Mr Michael Cawley, announcing the company's half-year results this week
Most department stores would have a panel of Santas they draw on year in year out for their grottoes. But this year they could go back to their traditional Santa and find he's working in IT.
- Mr Brian Goff, chairman of the Dublin City Centre Business Association, on how the Celtic Tiger has caused a shortage of Santas
Although I wasn't formally educated in university, I was educated in the university of the Bogside.
- The Northern Ireland Minister of Educa- tion, Mr Martin McGuinness
The political process can be saved but this will require a huge change of approach by London.
- Sinn Fein president Mr Gerry Adams
They are frightened. They are frightened they might be shafted.
- Mr David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, on paramilitaries' fears surrounding decommissioning
Some people thought I was a lame duck in 1995. I'll just keep quacking. I've got another 10 weeks to quack.
- President Clinton
I have not taken this decision lightly and I do not underestimate the problems such sanctions will cause for the republican leadership. But the alternative is the loss of the entire Belfast Agreement.
- The North's First Minister, Mr David Trimble, on his decision to ban Sinn Fein Ministers from North-South meetings
David Trimble must be moved from his current strategy . . . Only the governments, particularly the British government, have the power to achieve this.
- The Sinn Fein chairman, Mr Mitchell McLaughlin
The remarks made in the article were highly offensive and did no service to anybody, least of all the Olympians.
- Dr Greg Kelly, chairman of the Western Health Board, on the Sunday Independent article by Mary Ellen Synon. The board is considering withdrawing its advertising from the paper
For the first time in 25 years we are approaching the light at the end of the tunnel. We are now reaching the stage where we can accommodate all those sentenced by the courts for the full duration of their sentences.
- The Minister for Justice, Mr John O'Donoughue, at the opening of the midlands prison in Portlaoise
