“I want a meaningful change.”

Newly elected PN leader Simon Busuttil urging his party to change its approach and attitude to bring people back into the fold.


“If you fall, don’t stay there and complain, get up and walk again.”

Outgoing PN leader Lawrence Gonzi urging the party not to be disheartened by the bruising defeat at the general election.


“I was sure that with such weather he would spend the night on land.”

Skipper Juan Carlos Montes on how he never thought his five French friends would venture back to the yacht after the wind changed – their celebratory meal ended in tragedy; three bodies have been recovered.


“We don’t agree with the way Sliema residents were singled out.”

Sliema mayor Anthony Chircop contending his council did everything above board when it introduced a residents’ parking scheme – that the Government later suspended.


“As an EU national I am tired of being seen as a cash cow.”

Scottish-born Patricia Graham, who has lived in Malta for five years, presenting the Prime Minister a petition demanding that European ex­pats be treated like the Maltese.


“The process ruined Malta’s honour.”

Green MEP Bart Staes blaming European Commission president José Manuel Barroso for not assuming responsibility for the way he let go of his Health Commissioner John Dalli in the tobacco scandal.


“I have nothing to be ashamed of.”

Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella defending his decision to go against the ministerial code of ethics by still seeing patients.

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