“We must exclude nobody and include everybody.”

Archbishop Charles Scicluna welcoming the most important message that emerged from the Vatican’s three-week synod.


“What woman would allow a man to sit on her in the tight surroundings of a car?”

Forensic expert Mario Scerri presenting a plausible explanation as to how murdered lawyer Margaret Mifsud blindly trusted her estranged husband Nizar El Gadi.


“I’m not going to tell you anything. When it’s the appropriate time I’ll say who told me.”

Former GWU general secretary Tony Zarb refusing to name the “pertinent authorities” who told him that leasing parts of the union’s headquarters could go ahead despite being in breach of a contract.


“We must not blow this out of proportion.”

Oncologist Stephen Brincat urging caution before changing dietary habits after the WHO’s study placed processed meats in the same category as cigarettes and asbestos.


“Have you actually read the story?”

Psychologist and author Jennifer Bryan reacting to accusations that her book, one of 14 titles donated to the government by the gay rights movement, was intended to indoctrinate children.


“The University’s autonomy was respected at all times.”

CHOGM task force head Phyllis Muscat clarifying reports that the government interfered in the rector’s decision to close the University during the Commonwealth summit.


“Every time I look in the mirror I don’t look like anybody in the family that raised me.”

Briton Joanna Rose, in Malta to speak about reproductive technology, on the pain of not knowing who her biological father is after her parents opted for sperm donation.

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