"The animal was dragging the woman down the sidewalk. Despite our efforts to help, she was unable to get up or keep her balance."
-A police officer from the southwestern city of Legnica, where a large dog tried to drag home its totally drunk owner

"I don't hear Mr. Janusz Palikot shouting out loud that politicians are criminals and that parliament should be disbanded."
-Zbigniew Boniek, former striker in the Polish national soccer team and a recent candidate for Polish Soccer Union (PZPN) chief, on accusations about the PZPN voiced by Civic Platform deputy Janusz Palikot

"You can't deny the laws of nature. There can only be one father-and it's Law and Justice."
-Andrzej Dera, a deputy from the opposition Law and Justice, arguing in parliament that it was his party which came up with the idea of a law depriving former communist secret service officers of pension privileges

"We are the weakest antelope in a pack running from lions."
-Andras Simor, head of the Hungarian central bank, on why the bank has raised interest rates by 3 percentage points during the international financial crisis

Compiled from press reports