“He’s asked for the impossible.”

Speaker Anġlu Farrugia reacting to Labour MP Joe Sammut’s request for press surveillance; a request slammed by former ECHR judge Giovanni Bonello as a “job for a Big Brother State, not a democratic parliament”.


“As long as the company is declared it’s not a problem.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat insisting he saw nothing wrong with Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi’s ownership of a shell company in Panama, a blacklisted tax haven.


“Something, somewhere is wrong in all this.”

PN deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami challenging the Prime Minister to give full disclosure of Dr Mizzi’s offshore company and private financial set-up.


“Court attorneys are lawyers.”

Law faculty dean Kevin Aquilina on doubts over Caroline Farrugia Frendo’s eligibility to become a magis­trate, after he had initially said it was a “grey area”.


“He is unrecognisable.”

Charmaine Aquilina on how her 20-year-old son Nicholas was severely beaten in Paceville. Two foreign bouncers and a Maltese establishment mana­ger have been charged.


“They are in many respects whorehouses.”

GRTU vice president Marcel Mizzi urging authorities to regulate massage parlours as they were giving legiti­mate businesses a bad name.


“I threw the invitation away with the junk mail.”

Anthony Rossi, 62, describing how he had ignored the invitation to be tested for colorectal cancer but was coaxed by a friend to reconsider – luckily his disease was caught in time and he’s now appealing to others to be screened.

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