“I will keep it in mind.”

Transport Minister Joe Mizzi when asked if he could guarantee that the current bus ticket prices would be kept once a new public transport provider took over.

“These are the links that make us one nation.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat looking ahead to the island’s important milestones in 2014.

“Our hope for the new year is total freedom for Leah.”

Zhana Xuereb, the mother of cancer survivor Leah, 5, sharing her hopes for her young daughter, who had been set back by ailments in 2013.

“I was manna from heaven for the jellyfish.”

Labour MP Marlene Farrugia manages to see the funny side of her ordeal after she swam at Ġnejna Bay to avoid treacherous rocks while out on a walk but then had to be rescued by the Civil Protection Department.

“We go to Valletta one at a time in shared shoes.”

An Eritrean asylum seeker, who lives at the Ħal Far open centre, explaining the dire situation he and his friends are in.

“By new Paceville I meant a place that attracts youths.”

V-18 chairman Jason Micallef clarifying his plans to develop night life in Valletta’s Strait Street.

“I’m even considering not giving a permit for big events at the Granaries such as Isle of MTV.”

Floriana deputy mayor Matthew Paris threatening to withhold permits after he claimed government abandoned the locality’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. Parliamentary Secretary José Herrera insisted he has no right to do so.