“I know you like being seen with dictators but we live in a democracy.”

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil chastises Prime Minister Joseph Muscat during the Xarabank debate.

“The future is bright for Malta.”

A tweet by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat soon after Enemalta signed a €320 million deal with China.

“Damaging Malta’s social fabric.”

Magistrate Ian Farrugia appeals to the authorities to tackle bribery and corruption seriously as a second Enemalta official is jailed over the meter scandal.

“A tidal wave.”

Pharmacists complaining of political interference in the pharmacy-of-your-choice scheme and claiming they were repeatedly bypassed by patients whose medication has been out of stock for weeks.

“He was treated like any other passenger and passed through normal channels.”

Sources insisting that former Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan did not ask to be granted asylum in Malta shortly after he was ousted.

“If I go to prison I will do something the whole of Malta will hear about.”

Syrian Omar Yones, who survived the October tragedy when several of his countrymen drowned, breaking down when he was sentenced to six months in jail for illegally leaving Malta.

“Even among those who are not avid churchgoers there is a feeling that he is a breath of fresh air.”

Fr Stefan Attard, who until recently was based in Rome, on how lay people he bumped into all praised the Pope.