Quotes of the week

“I don’t want anyone to be speaking about referendums.”

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi toning down what MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando said 24 hours earlier that a referendum on divorce will be held next year.

“It is legitimate... to choose the lesser evil.”

A position paper on divorce by seven high profile priests, endorsed by the Archbishop, leaving Catholics free to vote in a divorce referendum according to their “informed conscience”.

“I am sure they are the best of friends in heaven.”

Carmen Sant reacting to a judgment that found her husband, former Labour minister Lorry Sant, breached the human rights of the late architect Renè Buttigieg.

“The Labour era has been turned into a creepy forbidding landscape.”

Historian John Chircop on how the story of the 1971-1987 Labour government was consistently used to scare the electorate.

“Easiest place to escape from.”

Police Inspector Joseph Hersey on how Malta had a reputation in Europe as a place where immigrants could easily leave illegally.

“I’ll have no choice but to open the gates and let out all the dogs.”

Noah’s Ark sanctuary founder Fabio Ciappara on how he would have to close down and abandon all 150 rescued dogs unless the government bails them out.