"The case came to light when officials arrived to change the locks because the tenant persistently failed to pay the rent and didn't respond to notices sent by post."
-A doctor from Łódź, where in an apartment in the center of the city the mummified corpse of a man was discovered, sitting in an armchair; the man had been dead some five years

"This can't go on, with the Americans building higher and higher walls. The Mexicans are jumping higher and higher; perhaps soon they'll take to pole vaulting."
-Former President Lech Wałęsa, on the United States and immigration policy

"He'll break up the United States just like Mikhail Gorbachev did with the Soviet Union; except that, fortunately, what remains after Gorbachev is Russia, while nothing will remain of the United States."
-Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Barack Obama

"The driver said he was relying totally on the car's navigation system and that's why he didn't pay attention to three warning signs on the road."
-A police officer from Głubczyce, Opole province, where a car with two people drove into the local lake

Compiled from press reports