We do have to tackle climate change, and that's a matter for government, companies and individuals as well, because the costs in the coming years from rising sea levels, from floods and extremes of climate will be too high.James Smith, chair of petroleum giant Shell.
We survived it.
What Michael McDowell said to Bertie Ahern after a press conference to reiterate the Government's strength.
When I travel abroad and come back I'm always stunned by the consumption here. Cars are bigger, people travel further distances, they build bigger houses. This is the ultimate disposable consumer society.
Victoria Markham, of the US Centre for Environment and Population, as the population of the US hits 300 million.
Revenge-killing seems to be totally out of control.
UN under-secretary for humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland commenting on a report which suggested that the death toll in Iraq following the US invasion has exceeded 650,000.
We are in a Muslim country and Muslims' views of foreigners in their country are quite clear. As a foreigner, you can be welcomed by being invited . . . but we weren't invited, certainly by those in Iraq at the time.
General Sir Richard Dannatt, head of the British army.
There was a huge explosion. I looked out my window and saw what appeared to be pieces of wings, on fire, falling from the sky.
Manhattan resident Richard Drutman commenting after a small plane crashed into a New York tower block.
I accepted this prize gratefully as a recognition of my 32 years of humble devotion to the great art of the novel.
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk on being awarded the Nobel Prize.
If the US continues to take a hostile attitude . . . we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that.
North Korea's deputy leader, Kim Yong Nam, after Pyongyang threatened to conduct further nuclear tests.
I think we have a Mexican stand-off.
Ulster Unionist Party leader Sir Reg Empey on the talks at St Andrews.
The IRA are not near to perfection in relation to doing away with their criminal activity.
DUP leader Ian Paisley saying that the IRA is a long way from going out of business.
She was a journalist who was critical of the current authorities in Russia. But although she was well-known among human rights groups and abroad, she had minimal influence on political life in Russia.
Russian president Vladimir Putin saying that the Kremlin was not behind the killing of crusading journalist Anna Politkovska.
How can we stand over couples ending up in situations like this? The ultimate resolution of all these issues is partnership rights and access to civil marriage.
Niall Crowley, of the Equality Authority, as a gay man who took time off to nurse his terminally-ill partner was granted a weekly social welfare payment by the Government.
Nally can walk the streets, but our brother can't come back.
Nora Ward, whose brother, John, was shot by farmer Padraig Nally. Mr Nally's manslaughter conviction was quashed this week.