“For the ceasefire to have any credibility Libya must withdraw all its military forces from the streets.”

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi on the Libyan government’s lack of commitment to a ceasefire.

“We’ll remember those who helped us... but we will never forget those who put spokes in our wheels.”

Libyan protesters claiming Maltese authorities had promised their support but had done nothing.

“A court in a glass box a thousand kilometres away has been engaged to veto overnight what has survived countless generations.”

Judge Giovanni Bonello in his opinion on the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling that overturned the controversial 2009 judgement banning crucifixes from classrooms in Italian state schools.

“Cardinal mistake.”

Former Labour leader and playwright Alfred Sant describing the University rector’s decision to report student newspaper Realtà to the police for publishing a sexually explicit article.

“The individual conscience of the legislator should decide.”

President Emeritus Eddie Fenech Adami believes lawmakers should ultimately vote according to their principles, irrespective of the referendum result.

“Embarrassed.”

Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando describing how he felt when he had to vote with the opposition and against his own party on the divorce question.