“I feel as though I’m married to Batman.”

Katia Parascandalo about her hairdresser husband Patrizio, who helped capture a hooded, armed man who stormed into his salon and pointed a gun at a 12-year-old. The man, who terrorised Żebbuġ, was charged with five hold-ups.


“He had the guts to admit his mistakes.”

Nationalist MP Jean-Pierre Farrugia praising Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi for reversing the controversial salary increases granted to MPs.


“Parliament is being treated like kindergarten.”

Former Labour leader Alfred Sant on his promise not to back down on his belief that the government acted in contempt of parliament on the issue of MPs’ raises and honoraria.


“We do not know where they are.”

Joe Camilleri fearing for his son Thomas’s safety, and that of his friend Glenn Paul Xuereb, who escaped from a Sousse jail and were on the streets amid the mayhem reigning on Tunisia’s streets.


“Censorship goes against the library’s principle.”

A University spokesman insisting the 2,000 books locked in its library were kept in a cabinet for safekeeping not because of censorship.


“I was really happy when he got me perfume from Ireland.”

Louise Farrugia on how as a girl she looked forward to the visits of her uncle, Archbishop Emanuel Gerada, who died at the age of 90.

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