After 35 years of respecting and helping Ireland, the EU has earned the right not to be seen as a threat to us. - Taoiseach Brian Cowen, ahead of the Lisbon Treaty vote.
At the end of the day, for a myriad of reasons, the people have spoken. - Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern on the outcome of the referendum.
Without any signs, traffic will automatically slow down and there will be fewer accidents because drivers will take more care. - John Henry, director of the Dublin Transportation Office, proposes that removing road signs might actually improve driver safety.
We thought about the pilot, I don't know how to say it . . . to feed ourselves from him. We thought about this, but some people were not in agreement because the situation was already so extreme. - Victor Suazo, one of the survivors of a plane crash in south Chile, says passengers considered cannibalism while huddling in frozen temperatures for five days.
The nation will live to regret what the court has done today. - US Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay can challenge their detention in US courts.
Likely to result in tension with those communities where no tension existed before. - Banning the hijab or other minority religious symbols from schools could sow the seeds of conflict, says Philip Watt of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism.
I'm lower than trash because at least the trash gets recycled. - An online posting by Tomohiro Kato shortly before he went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo, killing seven.
He didn't like the nose. - Courtroom sketch artist Janet Hamlin on the response of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
I think the European and global economies are facing a shock with a brutal strength that has not been seen before. - Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, says spiralling oil prices threaten European prosperity.