This week they said

You’re full of wind and spoof

You're full of wind and spoof. – Enda Kenny's quip to Micheál Martin who kept barracking him during the final election debate on RTÉ One television.

I know what you are going to say again. 'Fourteen years, I've a five-point plan, let's get Ireland working.' We need a bit more than that now, Enda. – Martin hits back.

It's all there on www.finegael.ie. – Kenny promotes his website.

Anglo Irish Bank was a piggy-bank for developers and it was tied to Fianna Fáil. – Eamon Gilmore to Martin.

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We have babies and society makes things difficult. – Debate chairwoman Miriam O'Callaghan explaining her reluctance to enter politics herself after the show.

We may well be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day. – New Zealand prime minister John Key as the scale of death, injury and damage from the earthquake in the south island city of Christchurch became clear.

I thought the devil was coming up out of the earth. – Teacher's aide Kevin Fitzgerald on Tuesday's earthquake.

Muammar Gadafy has no official position to resign . . . I am not going to leave this land. I will die here as a martyr . . . This is my country, my country. – Libyan tyrant Col Gadafy on himself.

Greasy rats! – Gadafy on the pro-democracy protesters.

[Gadafy] will continue. There is nobody stronger than the people, but he will not leave Libya, he will not step down. – Nuri al-Mismari, Libya chief of state protocol, an aide to Gadafy for some 40 years but now defected to the opposition.

I have no doubt this defendant is wanted for prosecution in Sweden . . . the boundary between suspicion and prosecution has been crossed. – Westminster magistrate Judge Howard Riddle ordering the extradition to Sweden of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face questioning on sexual assault and rape allegations.