Quotes of the week

"It's fantastic... You can't really describe it."
Marco Cremona on conquering Everest and becoming the first Maltese, together with Gregory Attard and Robert Gatt, to reach the summit of the mountain.

"They have their conscience and I have mine."
Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona replying to a police inspector's remark that other magistrates usually jail those trying to escape the island using false documents. Instead, the magistrate handed the illegal immigrant a suspended sentence.

"A form of indoctrination."
Archbishop Paul Cremona on what he feels is some journalists' habit to present an event in a pre-interpreted format.

"The jail term... should not be changed."
The three appeal judges confirming the jail term of disgraced former Chief Justice Noel Arrigo.

"Theatre of the absurd."
Labour MP Evarist Bartolo describing the planning authority hearing on the Delimara power station extension held at the ballroom of the Phoenicia hotel .

"A joke."
Karl Farrugia, 24, explaining his Facebook comment wishing someone shot the Pope in his hands, feet and side to symbolise Christ's wounds.