Anthony Manduca lists some of the comments and controversial statements made during interviews with The Sunday Times of Malta in 2014.
"I’ve had directors at the education department telling me that culture is a waste of time"
- Outgoing St James Cavalier general manager Chris Gatt, January 12.
"This is an attempt to satisfy a lobby without thinking about the consequences"
- Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna on gay adoption, January 12.
"The most racist people have a surname that takes them back to the roots of the culture they are racist about"
- linguist Mario Cassar, February 9.
"I don’t think people who know me have the impression that I am a bully"
- Malta Developers Association president Sandro Chetcuti, February 23.
"I’m a very positive person and I try to look forward"
- President-designate Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, March 9.
"I think real men don’t hunt. The idea that you get pleasure from killing animals is repulsive"
- Queen’s legendary guitarist Brian May, shortly before he performed in Malta, March 30.
"It was so excruciating that for the first time in my life I was crying in pain"
- Prime Minister Joseph Muscat speaking in the aftermath of an incident in which 60 people who attended a political activity in Żurrieq suffered burns or discomfort to their eyes, April 13.
"Basically I think that the people close to the Prime Minister gave him the wrong advice"
- former health minister Godfrey Farrugia, a week after he resigned from Cabinet, April 13.
"Let’s remember my arguments were backed by a serious German Commissioner. It was not some southern politicians with odd ideas"
- former European Commission president Romano Prodi on how he helped Malta join the EU, April 27.
"Syrian doctor Ayman Mostafa, who lost his wife and daughter off Lampedusa in October 2013 attempting to reach Europe, June 1."
- Syrian doctor Ayman Mostafa, who lost his wife and daughter off Lampedusa in October 2013 attempting to reach Europe, June 1.
"This is now becoming less about saving the cute polar bear from extinction and more about saving our own skin"
- International Maritime Law Institute director David Attard warning about the effects of climate change, June 8.
"I’ll fight as hard as I can; I don’t know if I’ll win"
- PN deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami on being diagnosed with a malignant tumour on his back, July 27.
"Society did not apply collective punishment when some priests were accused of child abuse. Should we accept it now just because we are hunters?"
- hunting federation president Joe Perici Calascione on the hunting suspension, September 28.
"The Vatican and religious institutions can give a person who wishes to leave the priesthood a hard time"
- Fr Anthony Zammit on his quest to leave the priesthood, October 5.
"Basically, I found a depleted structure"
- Air Malta chairwoman Maria Micallef on the management structure she inherited, October 12.
"We cannot have a government that promises everything to everyone, a government built on clientelism and nepotism"
- PN leader Simon Busuttil, November 2.
"We are back to the 1980s, when land was given at the wave of a pen"
- Din l-Art Ħelwa president Simone Mizzi, November 16.
"I burdened myself with the problems I faced yesterday and the day before, instead of letting them go. I’d restlessly mull over them"
- Archbishop Emeritus Paul Cremona speaking after his resignation, December 21.