“He went around comparing himself to the capo dei capi Toto Riina.”

Police Inspector Joseph Mercieca on how former police officer and lawyer David Gatt, who has been remanded in custody over his alleged involvement in four major hold-ups, bragged about himself.

“I cannot be an accomplice.”

Labour leader Joseph Muscat on why he is refusing two pay packets for the same job – as an MP and opposition leader – in solidarity with families striving to make ends meet.

“We have 60,000 Spanish visitors who do not eat before 10 p.m. and we tell them: kitchen closed.”

Tourism Parliamentary Secretary Mario de Marco on the need to learn and adapt to tourists’ eating habits.

“I want to walk out.”

The first words of Luke Micallef, 7, who is in hospital after falling five metres at Chadwick Lakes, after the life support machine was switched off – he has been asleep since.

“I don’t have time to waste.”

National football team captain Michael Mifsud’s reaction to the MFA president’s statement that he is not fit to head the squad.

“I don’t just dig up the ghosts from the past to make the corpses jibber.”

Dire Straits co-founder David Knopfler on the importance of being an authentic artist and not just playing the classics.