The local people mightn't know too much about us. I mean the Cablelink mightn't be too great out here, particularly in all the areas with the tin roofs.
- Republic of Ireland under- 20 team manager Brian Kerr, in Nigeria
It was bad all right.
- Kerr on accommodation problems in Nigeria where the team's official hotel demanded $6,000 up front before handing over room keys
I think we'll have a damn good summit.
- White House spokesman David Leavy on NATO's 50th anniversary summit later this month
They are brave soldiers, they have been fighting, they didn't want to surrender and I said "Thanks be to God that they are alive". They are brave American soldiers.
- Serb paramilitary commander Arkan on the three captured US soldiers
I do not regard this impeachment vote as some great badge of shame. I do not.
- US President Bill Clinton
An April Fool's Day charter.
- DUP leader Ian Paisley's verdict on the outcome of the peace talks
These are the people who . . . have never had anything constructive to offer. These people literally are the past in Northern Ireland.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair on anti-agreement protesters
The Garda Siochana are entitled to their fair share of the millennium cake.
- AGSI general secretary George Maybury arguing for a special £1,000 millennium payment for his members
It is well within the spirit of our brand of neutrality.
- Lieut Cdr Hugh Tully argues for accepting a US invitation to participate in a Partner ship for Peace naval exercise
Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible.
- Placard slogan in Belgrade jeers the US for losing a Stealth fighter
I wanted nothing from George Redmond, but he helped to hurry up progress in little bits of ways.
- Tom Roche snr, former chairman of National Toll Roads, who gave Redmond £10,000 for his help
From time to time pricing errors do occur in a supermarket of this size, but what is unusual is the extent of the problem.
- Spokesperson denying systematic overcharging by Tesco
I've often seen the mindless cruelty kids commit against animals and it seems only a step or two removed from the evils we commit against each other all the time.
- Tom Hyland of the East Timor Solidarity Campaign
This debt is more than a millstone. It's a tombstone.
- The President, Mrs Mc Aleese, in Honduras, regarding that country's debt
We were defending ourselves against what I call that obnoxious weed.
- New Ross publican Richard Roche, bound to the peace for his part in sabotaging a GM food crop
It isn't known if they knew the security camera wasn't working but it is unlikely to bother them if they were prepared to chat with the watchman, not wear gloves and not burn the car afterwards.
- Comment on the killers of Thomas Reilly at Premier Dairies, Churchtown, Dublin
It's something we abhor and regret.
- Mr Ian Fox, director of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland, laments the arrival of the video recorder which knows how to avoid adverts
As I write this, cruise missiles are falling on Belgrade, yet in the blacked-out streets the trams are running a normal night-time schedule. This is the strangest war I have ever reported on.
- John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor