Quotes of the week

"The bribe was not taken out of malice but weakness, and false friends..."

Mr Justice Giannino Caruana Demajo as he delivered the sentence of disgraced former Chief Justice Noel Arrigo.

"Women... a more costly source of labour than men..."

A business community draft document urging government to oppose the European Commission's proposal to increase maternity leave by four weeks.

"I never asked for anything, not even in this case."

Malta's European Commissioner nominee John Dalli when asked if being assigned the health and consumer portfolio tallied with his original wishlist.

"I really regret it."

Polish student Michael Kmiec on receiving a suspended jail term for entering Malta with 0.4g of cannabis.

"His biggest fault was killing the animal in the most cruel and inhuman manner... goes to show his gross ignorance."

Magistrate Miriam Hayman reprimanding police for failing to charge a man with animal cruelty after he killed his pet pitbull with a wooden stick for biting a 12-year-old boy.

"My allegiance is not to bishops and popes but to Christ..."

Dominican priest Mark Montebello on being disciplined by his superiors for "offending Maltese sentiment" in the media.