“I never aspired to this.”

Presidential nominee Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca says she is not fond of ceremonial poses.

“A schizophrenic experience.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat describes the notoriously bureaucratic public sector.

“This degrading spectacle is reserved for black asylum seekers and eastern European sex workers.”

Integra director Maria Pisani lambasts the way 14 migrants who fled from detention were paraded by the police before they were handed an eight-month jail sentence.

“I believe there is petroleum in commercial quantities.”

Transport Minister Joe Mizzi talks up the chances of striking oil off Malta.

“I absolutely dislike this activity (hunting).”

MEP hopeful Cyrus Engerer denies he was hunting for votes after presenting a petition with over 1,600 signatures against a proposed referendum to abolish spring hunting.

“Blown out of proportion.”

New Ugandan ambassador to Malta Dinah Grace Akello says there is too much fuss over her country’s anti-gay laws.

“He named the dogs after his neighbours.”

Police constable Christopher Debono testifies in a court case instituted by 15 neighbours against a Marsa man who failed to stop his barking dogs.