How come you thought we fled? Perhaps because if a similar situation befell your country, you and your family would flee - if you had one, of course. I did not commence [this letter] with the customary "dear sir", because you are not behaving like one.
- Mira Markovic, wife of Slobodan Milosevic, in an open letter to the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, who alleged that she and the Milosevic children were not in Yugoslavia
I just want a big hug. I need a bit of love and really want to be with the rest of my family.
- Sanije, a young woman Kosovan refugee in Albania
The moment the mine exploded the children and their mother were thrown far away . . . scattered around, one on this side, one on the other side, 10 metres or 15 metres away from the car.
- Ibush Berisha, father of the family killed by a Serb landmine last Sunday
Bill Clinton hopes that Milosevic will capitulate, give up the whole of Yugoslavia. We will not allow this. This is a strategic place. We simply cannot ditch Milosevic. We want to embrace him as tight as possible.
- Russia's President Boris Yeltsin, quoted on the Interfax news agency
Heaven only knows what we will find when we go into Kosovo . . . my generation never thought to see those scenes in Europe again.
- Tony Blair
At 3.10 a.m. [Thursday] NATO committed a criminal act without precedence - an assassination attempt against the president of a sovereign state. To say that President Milosevic was not personally targeted, but his home is, is the climax of NATO's cynicism.
- Goran Matic, Yugoslav minister without portfolio
Nothing will happen to your soldiers. We are a very old people with a long tradition of respecting POWs. They are healthy. The Geneva Convention is respected.
- Slobodan Milosevic, asked on American TV about the three US captives
The highest duty of a judge is impartiality, as well as the appearance of impartiality, and as my last duty and so that confidence can be restored in the administration of justice, I have decided to offer my resignation as judge of the Supreme Court.
- Hugh O'Flaherty, judge at the centre of the Sheedy affair
I believe that what Mr Kelly did was a disgrace, and his failure to explain why he did it is a further disgrace and the Minister's [Mr O'Donoghue] failure to get answers is a further disgrace.
- The Fine Gael leader, John Bruton, on Cyril Kelly's conduct in the Sheedy case
I don't expect either side to lose all but neither do I expect either side to win all.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, after talks on the peace process
Well, none, I think . . . It was a courtesy call . . .
- David Trimble, asked what significance he attached to his meeting with the Pope
Above all, no fuss. The future is in God's hands.
- Cardinal Basil Hume, announcing that he is dying of cancer
They were outcasts. Kids would make fun of them. They would rip on them.
- Nick Zupancic, a student at Columbine High School, on those responsible for the mass shooting
Tell everyone it's not the first time I have died in Coventry.
- Folk musician Dave Swarbrick, former violinist with Fairport Convention, after the Daily Telegraph reported his death in the English midlands city