A compilation of some of the comments and controversial statements made in The Sunday Times weekly interview slot in 2009.
'You guys don't care when our people are being attacked and killed'
Israeli Ambassador Gideon Meir (January 18)
'Parliament is filled with lawyers, teachers, trade unionists and journalists - people who are very good at talking but have no practice in constructive thinking'
Lateral thinking creator Edward de Bono (February 22)
'Invading Iraq was the right thing to do'
Former British first lady Cherie Blair (April 5)
'I'm not the great Luciano and I will never be the great Luciano'
Tenor Joseph Calleja (July 12)
'There's nobody who can threaten me on any issue'
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi (June 21)
'Joseph Muscat is pleasant to talk to when there is neither a microphone nor an audience present'
Malta's Permanent Representative to the EU Richard Cachia Caruana (March 8)
'Youngsters are being told that they are incapable of controlling themselves (sexually) and that everybody does it'
Pro-Vicar General Anton Gouder (April 12)
Where have all the Eurovision winners, with minor exceptions, gone? Nowhere!'
Malta's Eurovision representative Chiara (March 15)
'We expect immigrants to willingly and easily integrate with a nation that has repeatedly stated they are unwanted, a burden, a threat, an expense'
Former UNHCR head in Malta Neil Falzon (February 15)
'I'm not going to make a commitment (about the utility rates) for the next election before I have the matters in hand'
Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat (June 14)
'It's the obsessed animal lovers who are our biggest time wasters'
Animal Welfare Director Mario Spiteri (May 31)
'We had a violent opposition'
Former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici (January 25)
'I will not be shouldering responsibility for the mistakes of others'
Former PN president Victor Scerri (July 26)
'We feel Malta can go to the next level, whether it is hotels or complexes'
Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs (September 13)
'As an island state, Malta is at the forefront of the negative impacts of climate change'
IMLI director David Attard (December 6)
'I told my wife to kiss the children goodbye'
Police Commissioner John Rizzo (December 20)
'Divorce doesn't scare me... Some Church exponents are going overboard'
Cana Movement founder Mgr Charles Vella (August 16)
'We saw some bystanders laughing as the building went up in flames'
Former The Times editor Charles Grech Orr (October 11)
'The manner in which the decision was taken and, even worse, how it was sought to be justified afterwards, continues to baffle me'
Outgoing EU Commissioner Joe Borg (November 29)
'I regret the fact that I blindly followed orders over the Mistra issue'
Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (November 1)
'You fight with your spirit... And nobody can take that away from you'
Meningitis survivor Amy Zahra (August 30)
'I'm getting paid for something I love to do'
Singer Tom Jones (October 18)
'I know some parents who don't like me will be shaking their heads , but I believe I give people good values'
Singer Ira Losco (December 13)
'For centuries Malta did not change. Now we have our foot on the accelerator but we do not know where the brakes are'
Poet and writer Oliver Friggieri (November 15)