“Libya’s gates are now wide open to illegal immigration.”

Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Baghdadi blaming Nato air strikes for his country’s inability to patrol the ports.

“Humiliating.”

The Labour Party on how Malta had been let down after “begging for help” but only receiving a small number of pledges from EU member states to resettle migrants.

“If he doesn’t want the money isn’t it better if it remains with the taxpayer?”

The Nationalist Party’s reply when asked to explain why opposition leader Joseph Muscat had been denied his honorarium, a basic salary increase and a higher allowance – which he had planned to donate to charity.

“When things go so drastically wrong, heads roll...”

Business analyst John Cassar White insisting that for taxpayers to have faith in the system the top people at the VAT Department should all be replaced.

“Crusades are attacks.”

Archbishop Paul Cremona defending the Church’s mission to spread Christ’s teachings on divorce after he had last year assured there would be no crusade on the subject.

“I was afraid I would end up like one of those murdered women on the news.”

Grace Calleja, a single mother, explaining in court why she declared the father of her child was “unknown” after he failed to pay maintenance, and stands accused of threatening to stab and shoot her.