Show leadership. – Éamon Ó Cuív's advice to Máire Geoghegan-Quinn about her ministerial and TD's double pension of €108,000 a year
Somebody who continues in public life should make a sacrifice. – Dermot Ahern agrees
I do not want to get involved in particular issues. – Leadership, Brian Cowen-style
I want to acknowledge the gesture that she has made in solidarity with the situation here at home in Ireland. – Cowen praises Geoghegan-Quinn's leadership after she "gifted" her pensions to the State for the duration of her term as a €243,000-a-year European commissioner
There just seems to be no consultation . . . no communication. – Kathleen McMahon on the Irish Prison Service, and why she resigned as governor of Dóchas, the women's prison, at Mountjoy Jail in Dublin
All I know is this is a tissue of lies. – Ian Bailey on the case being assembled against him by French authorities investigating the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier
Everything is so serious and gloomy now and we want to inject a little bit of fun into things. – Raymond Coyle of Largo Foods, whose poster ads for Hunky Dorys show a lot of female flesh and very few crisps . . .
It's really tiresome to see companies resorting to this kind of old-style sexism, when the world is full of so many imaginative possibilities. – National Women's Council director Susan McKay doesn't see anything funny about the crisp ads . . .
There's a lot to this job. And as you saw yesterday, I do not get all of it right . . . – UK prime minister Gordon Brown's opening remarks in the final UK election leaders' debate seeking to defuse the fallout from his overheard description of pensioner Gillian Duffy as "a bigoted person"
All you are hearing is very desperate stuff from someone in a very desperate state. –
Conservative leader David Cameron sticks it to Brown
Let me explain . . . – Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tries to get his oar in