“Tell the truth irrespective of pain – this is not a hospital.”

PAC chairman Jason Azzopardi reminding Enemalta’s former chief financial officer Pippo Pandolfino that he was under oath and had to speak out irrespective of the court case against his former colleagues.

“What is Air Malta facing? An outbreak of a disease or unofficial action ordered by Alpa?”

Malta Employers Association hitting out at news that 17 Air Malta pilots called in sick on one day, disrupting travel plans for more than 2,000 passengers.

“I can’t live my life happily knowing that I only speak when it’s convenient.”

Joseph Calleja when asked why he was backing the appeal of Brit Daniel Holmes who is serving what many believe is an excessive 10-year jail term for growing five cannabis plants.

“Tried to twist the arm of justice.”

Magistrate Edwina Grima concluding that being the victim of aggression did not give GRTU director general Vince Farrugia the right to engage in manoeuvres to manipulate justice.

“People who go to prison... are helped to reintegrate. Why should I be precluded from society?”

Developer Sandro Chetcuti asking why he shouldn’t remain on the Building Regulation Board after being given a suspended jail term for assaulting former Vince Farrugia. The Government said he will retain his post.

“The party may be broke but it’s not broken.”

Nationalist Party deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami optimistic that the party’s foundations are in place and it can look to the future with optimism.

“I just started praying fervently to God – what else can you do?”

A police inspector, who was the first on the scene, describing his helplessness after a one-year-old girl fell from a two-storey balcony in Pembroke.