“Where bribery is involved in the granting of visas, the government’s interest is not national security but corruption.”

Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil urging Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to take immediate action over allegations that a Health Ministry official ran a medical visa racket charging Libyans thousands of euros.

“The winning formula is that we take decisions.”

Joseph Muscat taking credit for Malta’s low jobless rate after official Eurostat figures showed the country’s unemployment figures to be well below the EU average.

“Until Britain exits the EU, we will not be a part-time Member State.”

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon speaking to the press during a short visit to Malta.

“We are not receptionists and we have no time to do this.”

Malta Medical Association general secretary Martin Balzan explaining why his union ordered doctors to ignore a new Health Ministry policy which obliges them to input patients’ data in the computer system.

“The piecemeal monumental developments will inflict irreversible damage on our heritage skyline as well as on innumerable families, present and future, that will be directly and indirectly affected by these developments.”

A statement by the Democratic Party after the Planning Authority gave the go-ahead for four high-rise towers in Mrieħel and the 38-storey Townsquare tower in Tigné, Sliema.