Straight from the horse's mouth...
"At last I can ask people to come upstairs and see my etchings and really mean it!" Steve Ronchetti, licensee of the Bisley in Blaydon-upon-Tyne, who set up nude drawing classes upstairs at his pub.
"By strengthening the Morning Advertiser, we strengthen the voice of the licensee. And that's got to be good for us all." MA editor Andrew Pring on the newspaper's relaunch in January.
"The midwife for the renaissance of beer in Britain." Mark Dorber, licensee of the White Horse on Parsons Green, London, describes his aims for the Beer Academy.
"It would be an oxymoron for us to tell people to drink less. There needs to be a light touch because taking a hard line and telling people to watch out' just doesn't work." Coors chief executive Peter Kendall, who took over as chairman of the Portman Group in January.
"What I see as the Government taking populist decisions are, by the time they get down to our level, decisions and rules that often like oil and water simply don't work together." Matthew Jackson, owner and licensee of the Water Witch in Lancaster on the new grading of cannabis.
"It's going to be bloody murder. All our dealings with local authorities are difficult and take months and months. I can see only chaos coming out of this." Chris Holmes, founder of Tynemill pub group, on licensing reform.
"I used to be in favour of the free market, but now I'm not so sure." Tony Brookes, head of the Head of Steam pub group, on the rising number of high street pubs, which has spurred deep discounting.
"I know about cellar management. I can change a barrel." Sarah Smart, the leggy stunner employed by cellar training providers Guy Simmonds to sell their service.
"Antiquated and arrogant." Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj, owners of Cains brewery in Liverpool, on the Independent Family Brewers of Britain, which turned down the company's membership on the grounds that it had not been brewing for 10 years.
"We want compensation to victims to be targeted in the right way, and to come from appropriate sources." Home secretary David Blunkett on plans for the trade to give cash to help victims of violent crime.
"We're being asked to foot the bill for the failure of the criminal justice system to arrest, prosecute and lock up the thugs menacing our society." British Beer and Pub Association spokesman Mark Hastings replies.
"It was the usual trade-clobbering stuff which we have all heard before." Nottingham Club & Pubwatch chairman Michael Knight on the BBC's notorious Panorama "exposé" on binge drinking.
