Quotes of the week

"What happens in the bedroom often ends up before the state..."

Social Affairs Committee chairman Edwin Vassallo on how the government ended up paying the consequences of what went on in bedrooms.

"Offensive and insensitive."

The Broadcasting Authority describing parts of Norman Lowell's interview on Bondiplus which it felt could have been avoided and were not properly countered.

"Israel's siege on the ship was immoral, illegal and unjust."

Imam Mohamed El Sadi calling on international leaders to take action after Israel's raid on a flotilla of six ships heading to besieged Gaza left nine people dead.

"A sin of commission or omission."

Labour spokesman Evarist Bartolo saying Education Minister Dolores Cristina is ultimately responsible for the mismanagement that led to the suspension of EU student funds.

"You don't conquer Everest, you conquer yourself."

Gregory Attard, who with Robert Gatt and Marco Cremona became the first Maltese to conquer Everest, describing the experience.

"That thought eats away at my soul every day of my life."

The father of Melanie Wallner, who was dumped by her husband Peter in a wheelie bin in the UK before escaping to Malta with his second wife, on how it haunts him to know when he stayed at the Wallners his daughter was in a freezer outside the house.