Quotes of the week

“If the country’s interest is Dr Muscat’s ambition that is not my interest.”

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi referring to opposition leader Joseph Muscat’s aspiration to become the youngest Prime Minister by taking advantage of the situation created by Nationalist MP Franco Debono.

“I am prepared to take decisions where the Prime Minister is unwilling to do so.”

Opposition leader Joseph Muscat urging Dr Gonzi to resolve the instability and stop putting his political interests before the country’s. Labour went on to present a no confidence motion in government.

“Our father stopped existing when he killed our mother.”

The 13-year-old daughter of Catherine Agius, who was stabbed to death by her estranged husband as she came off a bus, reacting to the court sentencing her father to 31 years imprisonment.

“Who can say, hand on heart, that the council is working?”

Sliema council mayor Joanna Gonzi admitting she was not surprised by the Prime Minister’s letter warning that unless it resolves its internal matters the council would be disbanded.

“Rehabilitation is a poisonous word.”

Dominican priest Fr Mark Montebello taking umbrage at the word, insisting all this meant was to teach criminals to continue what they did, but learning how not to get caught.

“Alarming.”

Researcher Andrew Decelis reacting to preliminary results that show only five per cent of children exercise for an hour a day.