I have had conversations with Kofi in the run-up to war, thinking: 'Oh dear, there will be a transcript of this, and people will see what he and I are saying.' Former UK minister Clare Short says British agents spied on Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
I always assumed that he was, to be frank with you. I'd be surprised if he wasn't, in one form, back over the years. The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, says he believes Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was in the IRA.
Seeds are being planted that will one day bear fruits of pure poison. Dr Jonathan Sacks, UK chief rabbi, says anti-Semitism is being spread by e-mail and television.
Important. Not just for women golfers, but for women in general. The Equality Authority after Portmarnock Golf Club was found to have breached the Equal Status Act by refusing women members.
No matter how it turns out, one way or another it is going to be his last jump. If the fall doesn't kill him, I will. Barbara Bush, wife of the 80-year-old former US president, is unimpressed by her husband's plans to go skydiving.
The sands in this guy's hourglass are running out. Lieut-Col Matt Beevers, director of public affairs for coalition forces in Afghanistan, says US forces are closing in on Osama Bin Laden.
It is time to bring these activities to an end. Otherwise more people will be killed and injured. The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, amid claims that the Provisional IRA abducted a dissident republican.
There was no demand from the public for the scrapping of the old trusted, and reliable system of voting. Labour environment spokesman Eamon Gilmore, as the Government presses ahead with plans for e-voting.
If we are to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in America. President Bush moves to outlaw gay marriage.
Not even Irish people can live properly on current social welfare levels.
Green party social welfare spokesman Dan Boyle says fears of an influx of benefits scroungers from EU accession states are unjustified.
The Passion of the Christ is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus's final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it.
A.O. Scott of the New York Times on Mel Gibson's brutal retelling of the crucifixion story.
It really smacks of the Salem witch-hunts and all the accompanying hysteria.
Camille Paglia on claims by fellow feminist Naomi Wolf that she was groped by a professor as a Yale undergraduate in 1983.
It could have been a lot worse A Government official in Brussels as briefing notes for the Minister for Education, Mr Dempsey, are distributed to journalists by accident.