"Don't shoot, don't shoot." – The reported last words of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafy
"Gadafy was taken out of a sewage pipe . . . he didn't show any resistance. When we started moving him he was hit by a bullet in his right arm and when they put him in a truck, he did not have any other injuries. When the car was moving it was caught in crossfire between the revolutionaries and Gadafy forces in which he was hit by a bullet in the head." – Libya's interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril describing Gadafy's death
"On one hand I feel extremely happy to see the end of this tyrant who filled our country with bloodshed, but on the other I remember all my friends and other victims who are not with us today to celebrate. I hope that the Libyan nation can now start over again and begin to heal its wounds." – Tawfiq al-Ghazwani, who moved to Ireland after spending 10 years in Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim political prison.
"This loyalty to a secret illegal army presumably was more important to Mr [Martin] McGuinness than helping the Garda Síochána to solve a vicious murder. It is a loyalty that we believe is incompatible with the office of president of Ireland." – Anne McCabe, whose husband Det Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the Provisional IRA in 1996.