Why did they kill my daddy? I loved him. He was big and he brought me everywhere.
- Sean McColgan (11), whose father, John, was shot dead in his taxi by loyalists
Why did Ben Hughes's murderer not recognise Ben as his fellow human being? What clouded his eyes, what twisted his mind, what hardened his heart?
- The Bishop of Down and Connor, Dr Patrick Walsh, at the funeral of Mr Hughes, murdered by loyalist gunmen
We're perfectly capable, should the need arise, to say No. After all it's going back to what we know best.
- The leader of the UUP, David Trimble
Our concern now is simply to establish the truth and close this painful chapter once and for all.
- Tony Blair, announcing a judicial inquiry into Bloody Sunday
We have been appalled at the details of the suffering of the McColgan children at the hands of their father, Joe McColgan. We sincerely hope that each of them will be able to recover fully from the effects of their ordeal.
- The North Western Health Board after the McColgan case against the board and a Co Sligo doctor was settled last week
We believe that we have told the truth, that we have been listened to and that justice has been done.
- Sophia McColgan
I want you to listen to me. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewin sky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the American people.
- President Clinton in a denial of a sexual affair with a former White House intern
Charlie McCreevy made his name and was lauded from a height for having courage, for speaking out when others were silent . . . Suddenly he has rolled over now and he is being scratched on his tummy by being in Government.
- Nora Owen (FG), on the Minister for Finance's rejection of an Opposition motion to include an investigation of the Ansbacher accounts in the Moriarty tribunal