“My client is contending that he has become a political football.”
Lawyer Edward Gatt asking why Paul Sheehan, the Home Affairs Minister’s driver charged with attempted murder, was arrested a week after he fired two shots at a car.
“I have a weapon and it is the truth; political honesty.”
Opposition leader Simon Busuttil lashing out at the various wrongdoings of various ministers, ending with the gravest incident involving the Home Affairs Minister’s driver, during his Budget speech.
“This is not a perfect government and we do make mistakes...”
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat reacting in his Budget speech and insisting that people knew the government was working to change things for the better.
“I had got to the point where I was too tired... The Church needs creative people.”
Archbishop Emeritus Paul Cremona addressing the congregation that bid him farewell during the Christ the King Mass.
“If one believes in Sharia law, that is where our conversation ends, with me making sure the idiot does not attain political power...”
V-18 artistic director Mario Philip Azzopardi writing on Facebook about how he would treat Muslims practising Sharia law with the same contempt as Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members. He later apologised.
“In life, we are besieged by problems... but we must be warriors and conquer them.”
Malta’s Eurovision representative Amber Bondin on the inspiration behind her winning song Warrior.
“This is just a white elephant; like wishing Malta has snow-capped mountains.”
Environmentalist Alfred Baldacchino criticising a Chinese company’s €1bn plans for a bridge linking Malta and Gozo.