I want to say to Mo Mow lam, Gerry Adams, Tony Blair and all the other republican scum that we will not be trampled off the streets of Ulster by the RUC. - Paul Berry (22) of the DUP and the youngest member of the Assembly, at Portadown
In the last couple of weeks we've been called dogs, animals, tigers, monsters who should be locked in cages, and that's not a reference to me, that's a reference to every man, woman and child that lives in this community. - Spokesman for the Garvaghy Road residents, Breandan Mac Cionnaith
The brethren of Portadown are happy to stand here for one day, 31 days, or 365 days. - Co Armagh Grand Master Denis Watson
With its doctrine of forgiveness, love and humility, has anybody thought about introducing Christianity to the two sides at Drumcree? - Simon Vogel, of Harlow, Essex, in a letter to the Guardian
This parade is going down the [Garvaghy] road anyway, so it's far better [that happens] before the 12th of July. That will be the settling day. - The DUP leader, the Rev Ian Paisley
It'll go down. I'd bet my income support on it. I'd never trust the British. - A young woman on the nationalist side of the standoff
One is not amused at that. - Queen Elizabeth, jokingly, after Sol Campbell's goal was disallowed in the England-Argentina clash
I scored a better one as a schoolboy. - Michael Owen, answering the hype over his dream-like goal against Argentina
On the pitch we try to be correct, to show we're a cultured people. We're ambassadors for our country. We must compose ourselves. And we're so proud of who we are. We were under Yugoslavia for 45 years and we couldn't say we were Croats. Now we can. That's very important for us. - Igor Stimac of Croatia
Although it's very difficult to say, we know referees favour big countries. - Stimac, before the Croatia- France game
I told Ze Carlos that since he can imitate dogs and owls, now he can imitate Cafu. - Brazil coach Mario Zagallo, before the Holland game
It was not me making those saves, it was God. It was a real struggle, we had to battle very hard with all our strength. But I must give thanks to God. - Brazil goalie Taffarel
If we win I don't expect them to build a statue for me. But if we lose, they'll kill me. - Brazil captain, Dunga, on his country's fanatical fans
Everywhere I go I am insulted. A man slaps me at the bus stop. Someone throws a used nappy at me from his window. The policeman sees it but he does nothing. Truly, this is a hard place to live in. - Land Vey, a black immigrant living in Dublin
They are wanting us to come to a passenger, give a friendly punch on the arm and ask, "What can I get ya?" It is all about becoming more American and following fashion. - A British Airways stewardess on BA's efforts to make its cabin crew "less British"
If the Pope really wishes to offer guidance to the modern world, he should forbid Catholics from owning or watching a television set. - Social commentator Auberon Waugh
They killed him, they killed him, they killed him. - A family member of Moshood Abiola, Nigeria's most prominent political prisoner, who has died of an apparent heart attack
Start to Control HQ. False start. There's been a duck up. - Steward's message at Henley Regatta after a boat hit a duck