This Week They Said

A little bit disappointed, but that's how it goes

A little bit disappointed, but that's how it goes.Carl McCann, chairman of Fyffes, which lost its €106 million insider dealing case against DCC managing director Jim Flavin

I have been beaten on every part of my body. The marks are still there.

Saddam Hussein claiming he had been tortured by his US jailers

Most of our European friends cannot be shocked that this kind of thing takes place.

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Colin Powell, former US secretary of state, saying that European leaders must have been aware of the transport, detention and treatment of terrorism suspects by the US

We are delighted. Here's to many more.

Shannon Sickels speaking after she exchanged vows and rings with Gráinne Close at a Belfast register office in the UK's first same-sex union

We've moved backwards, not forwards.

Colm O'Gorman, of One in Four, saying that new child protection guidelines unveiled by the Catholic Church do not meet the standards of the Ferns Report

In a week of disappointments, this is no small prize. It is not enough to make this meeting a true success, but it is enough to save it from failure.

EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson after world leaders reached an interim deal to end farm export subsidies by 2013

They can use overhead images to get co-ordinates for a mortar attack or for a suicide-bomber to try to figure out where a building is in the base so they do not get lost on their way in.

Bill Sweetman, a technological warfare expert with Jane's, the military and intelligence specialist publisher, saying that Iraqi insurgents are using the Google search engine to mount attacks on US and British forces

The person who we believe ordered it is high up in the IRA. It's all to protect him. He's being allowed to be bigger than the whole movement.

Catherine McCartney saying that the senior republican who ordered the murder of her brother, Robert, in Belfast is planning to emigrate to the US

Men do not browse. For women, shopping is a leisure activity, but for men it's a mission. They usually know what they want, they buy it and they're done.

Tom Coffey, chief executive of Dublin City-Centre Business Association, on Christmas shopping habits

Maybe someone sitting around the cabinet table with us could be in MI5.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern saying the revelations that a senior Sinn Féin administrator was a British agent makes a coalition between that party and Fianna Fáil even more of a long shot

In future, my name is not used for any kind of promotion of Graz.

Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger severing links with his home town in Austria, where he was criticised for refusing to halt the execution last week of LA gang-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams

I don't mind who looks at the Thornton Hall project as long as they are people who are genuinely investigating and not pursuing a hidden agenda.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell after reports that the Centre for Public Inquiry plans to investigate his department's purchase of land for a new prison in north Co Dublin