“His behaviour was partly motivated by his reluctance to attend catechism lessons.”

Magistrate Audrey Demicoli ruling that a 10-year-old boy’s claims that he was abused by catechist Anthony Callus could not be believed.

“If you have been snubbed, if you have been ill-treated, come to us and we will be your shield.”

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil telling supporters the Nationalist Party will make good for Labour’s failed message to make Malta a country for all.

“Walls don’t solve everything. What are we going to do, build a wall in the sea?”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat saying the summit had to look to the future after European leaders agreed to increase funds to tackle the refugee crisis and relocate immigrants through mandatory quotas.

“They are like cannibals who look at us as if we were a burger.”

Għaqda Patrijotti Maltin president Alex Pisani describing immigrants after an incident where two African flatmates bit each other; in the same breath he denies the association is racist.

“Nobody has made any claims of fraud with us.”

Skanska, which built Mater Dei Hospital, refuting the Health Minister’s claims of fraud that defective concrete was used, after it emerged that the Swedish company refused to meet the Attorney General to discuss claims for damages.

“We have been short-changed.”

A bus driver laments working conditions during a strike on Friday.

“Allowing vilification may be painful to some, unpleasant and unnecessary to most of us, but given a choice between that and the erosion of our freedom of expression, there is no option.”

Theatre director Chris Gatt makes his case for controversial government plans to repeal legislation on the vilification of religion.