Personally I would probably vote for Mary McAleese if I had a vote. - The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams
I'd be very wary of it, I'll tell you the Lord's honest truth. I certainly would. - Presidential candidate Prof Mary McAleese, asked if she would accept £30,000 in a brown envelope towards the cost of her campaign
And tell me what is so awful about a possible president having a strong religious belief, that it would be portrayed as a desire to drag modern Ireland, kicking and screaming, back into the 19th century . . ? - Presidential candidate Dana, Rosemary Scallon
DCU welcome's Adi. - A sign on the wall of the Dublin City University canteen
I would vote for Donald Duck if they opposed Mary McAleese. I think she will make a very dangerous and tribal president. - Media adviser and reported Nally campaigner Eoghan Harris
You get to your hotel room and in the shower is a blonde who's been waiting for you all her life. So you say, "Well, here I am." - Bill Wyman, on life in the Rolling Stones during their heyday
My wife's just pregnant again. So I am not shooting blanks. I am still working to my full capacity. - Mr Wyman
If the DUP and the UK Unionists won't take on the enemies of the Union at Castle Buildings, they certainly won't take them on in a conflict. Actions speak louder than words. Stop living in the past, McCartney and Paisley. - Part of a statement issued by UFF inmates in the Maze
Mr Adams has the Armalite in one hand - and Mr Blair in the other. - Editorial in the Daily Telegraph on the handshake of the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, with Tony Blair at Stormont last Monday
We want him to be the last British Prime Minister with jurisdiction in Ireland. - Gerry Adams
I treated Gerry Adams and the members of Sinn Fein in the same way I treat any human being. - Mr Blair, on the hand-clasping
Provisional Sinn Fein, led by Mr Adams, does not, has never and never will represent a majority of the Irish people. It represents a very small minority. - The Fine Gael leader in the Seanad, Maurice Manning, on suggestions that Mr Blair's meeting with Mr Adams is equivalent to the meeting between Lloyd George and the Dail team in the treaty negotiations of 1921
I don't want to be famous. I just want to go back to being like everybody else. And you can't. It's impossible now. - TV globetrotter Michael Palin
French women are difficult. I like difficult women. - Actor Ewan McGregor
The way I look at it, I'm getting skinnier and they're getting fatter. I am already better looking than the lot of them put together. - Paul Gallagher, brother of Oasis stars Liam and Noel
We begin discarding the unanimously loathed. We are merciless, ruthless, brutal. Books that have taken years to write and hours to read are dispatched in minutes. - Jason Cowley, describing the operation of the Booker Prize judges, of which he is one
Obviously, if 20 people had died in a little over half a week by any other means, it would be a major issue of national concern. - The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, on the high number of road traffic accidents
The plain fact is that most of the really memorable bits of the Old Testament do come into the sex and violence category. - The Rev Michael Saward, Canon Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral, London