In my opinion, [the Bloody Sunday operation] should have been an operation to control the NICRA [civil rights] march - just that. If someone had wanted to "sort out" the hooligan element, let it be done later in the day when the reasonable people of Derry had gone home.
- A Royal Anglian Regiment colonel in a statement to the Saville inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings
It takes the side of no one, however powerful or influential they may be.
- Counsel for the inquiry, Mr Christopher Clarke
Such a practice distracts, sometimes seriously, from the sacred nature of the liturgy and occasionally may be offensive to the congregation.
- The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Sean Brady, on funeral eulogies
We almost now have two unionist parties under the one name. One will destroy the other.
- Seamus Mallon, SDLP, on last Saturday's UUP leadership challenge
All I can say is that there are those who fear that he may not even get reselected, never mind elected, in Upper Bann.
- The Rev Martin Smyth, Mr Trimble's challenger, speaking after the vote
We are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those who in the course of history have caused those children of yours to suffer.
- Pope John Paul II, in a note placed in a crack in the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
The strike-breaking call this morning by IBEC . . . expresses the breathtaking arrogance of the captains of industry . . . IBEC represents speculators and private landlords who rack-rent.
- Mr Joe Higgins (Socialist Party)
I have been assaulted a few times. I've been spat at, punched, threatened with a syringe and robbed at gunpoint. People ask why I stay. I actually like the job and just want a just wage for it.
- Mr Martin Henry (35), Dublin Bus driver
We are delighted with the number who have turned up . . . there was real Dunkirk spirit.
- Mr Duncan Graham, general manager of Brown Thomas, on staff turnout during the bus strike
You've got that guy Bono gobbing off. If I was as rich as him I'd want the plant shut too. But I depend on it for some of my living. There's hardly anyone in West Cumbria who doesn't get part of their income from Sellafield.
- A self-employed man who lives in a village near Sellafield
He [the Taoiseach] wants internment camps.
- Mr Donal Carey (FG) on the flotels proposal