He was a good person. He was competitive, sporty, kind, loving, caring, romantic, just everything a good man should be . . . He thought this war was over, but obviously not, and I just can't believe this has all started up again. If Steve's death has made a positive effect on all of this, that's all I care about. It's a hard lesson for everyone to learn but if it brings something positive out of it then fine – but I don't want Stephen to have died in vain.
– Kate Carroll on her husband, PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll, murdered by the so-called Continuity IRA, whose funeral took place yesterday in Banbridge, Co Down.
Born in England. Reared in Kildare. Murdered in Armagh.
– RTÉ’s northern editor Tommie Gorman on Constable Carroll’s background
[They are] traitors to the island of Ireland.
– Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness characterises the terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Co Antrim and the killers of Constable Carroll
Wrong and counter-productive.
– Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams’s description of the shooting dead of the two soldiers and the wounding of others, including pizza delivery men
[Sinn Féin’s response has been] astonishing . . . They have demonstrated to people in unionist communities that they are wedded to peace.
– Frankie Gallagher of the Ulster Political Research Group, the think-tank of the UDA
It’s been years of literal darkness that I have been through. As far as I am concerned, nothing matters.
– Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay, claiming the six years and 10 months he spent in US detention left him feeling dead
I am deeply sorry and ashamed . . . I knew what I was doing wrong, indeed criminal.
– New York financier Bernard Madoff, who fleeced investors and charities of some $65 billion (€50 billion)
He [Madoff] is going to be sentenced for 150 years. I hope he lives a very long life.
– Richard Friedman, an accountant who lost more than $3 million