The figure of €3bn is a minimum

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan spreads fear of a harsh budget

He's old, he dies and I inherit it

Silvio Berlusconi on why it is "only natural" for younger women to be attracted to rich and powerful older men

I am appalled by a situation which gave the impression that people are being removed from a member state just because they belong to a certain ethnic minority. This is a situation I had thought Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War

European justice commissioner Viviane Reding on the expulsion of Roma people from France

To our regret no explanation emerged in the evidence as to how the two firearms were introduced into the prison and put into the hands of the IRA

Report into the murder of UVF leader Billy Wright, which ruled out official collusion in his killing

You think at times you have landed in a third-world country

Senior papal adviser Cardinal Walter Kasper insults Britain

Have you got a pair of knickers made out of this?

Prince Philip quizzes Scottish Conservative party leader Annabel Goldie on her underwear after admiring Labour leader Iain Gray's tartan tie

Evolution is a fantasy of farraginous, farcical, fatuous, feculent, facile facetiousness and my book shall lead the charge against this unscientific hoax

Writer John May on the anti-evolution thesis in his book, 'The Origins of Specious Nonsense'