I will tell them there were no IRA units on the march in the Rossville Flats area - there were no IRA weapons in that area - and that no IRA shots were fired at the British army.
- Mr Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein, talking about his forthcoming appearance at the Saville inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday: Mr McGuinness has admitted he was the IRA's second-in-command in Derry on that day
The fact that old soldiers are prepared to talk openly about their experiences could be taken as an indication that they have now put the war behind them.
- Mr Eamonn McCann, the author of Bloody Sunday in Derry, of Mr McGuinness's admission
Two RUC men were murdered one mile from the events of Bloody Sunday three days before the march. If the IRA were acting under his instructions on Sunday, were they acting under his instructions on Thursday?
- Mr Gregory Campbell, DUP, on Mr McGuinness
I want to say congratulations to Coach K. The reason I call him Coach K is because sometimes I have trouble pronouncing long words.
- President Bush, honouring the US national college basketball champions, Duke Blue Devils, and their coach, Mike Krzyewski
I'm a black man in the Tory party. I can't just stand by and say nothing.
- Lord Taylor of Warwick, Conservative peer, after he branded Mr William Hague "pathetic" for refusing to discipline East Yorkshire MP John Townend, who suggested Britons were becoming a "mongrel race"
Yes. Yes and no. Yes in so far as they appear to have some capacity to carry out operations. No in that they have no possibility of having popular support. Or no possibility of succeeding because they don't have a strategy.
- Mr Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein leader, asked about the threat the "Real IRA" poses to peace
It was a slap in the face to us all. It was particularly hurtful to our widows and to the families of our colleagues who gave their lives. Our membership consider you have stolen our organisational soul.
- RUC Det Chief Supt Bill Lowry, president of the Superintendents' Association of Northern Ireland, on the Patten reforms
He applied his strict personal morality to all facets of his public life and I am happy and proud to stand over his record of public service.
- Senator Jim Gibbons (PD), son of the minister for defence at the time of the Arms Crisis, referring to the "character assassination" of his father
As a prime location for US and other non-EU investment, our attraction for foreign investment is likely to be enhanced when we are part of a union of 27 rather than 15.
- The Fine Gael leader, Mr Michael Noonan, talking about the Nice Treaty
I am a sick man. My last wish is to walk into a Margate pub as an Englishman and order a pint of bitter.
- Fugitive Ronnie Biggs, one of the "Great Train Robbers", who wants to return home from Brazil after 35 years on the run
You close on a house. You don't close on a death.
- Peggy Bosterman, whose son died in the Oklahoma bomb, on the idea that Timothy McVeigh's death would bring "closure"