Quotes of the week

"Pointing fingers is a national pastime that never yielded results."
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi avoiding blaming anyone for Malta Shipyards' constant negative results while announcing the decision to privatise it.

"To be European we don't need to eat the same food, wear the same clothes and vote the same way."
Campaign for National Independence leader Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici on the Irish referendum decision to reject the Lisbon Treaty.

"We have to accept that the family structure is changing."
Marianne Massa, principal investigator of the latest Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study, on its finding that 37.6 per cent of local secondary schoolchildren live with one parent.

"We have some 800 immigrants who are deprived of their families and it is taking at least three years for them to be reunited."
Emigrants Commission head Mgr Philip Calleja describing immigrants' inhumane situation on World Refugee Day.

"We are not happy to see these arcades sprouting everywhere."
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech on the setting up and operation of gambling arcades.