"Officers saw two groups of girls on the street. They were wearing soccer scarves, carrying wooden clubs and shouting aggressively."
-Jan Kościuk, press officer for police in Tczew, Pomerania province, after officers intervened to prevent a street fight between female supporters of local soccer clubs; police detained 19 girls aged 14-17

"This kind of poetic rhetoric doesn't impress me. Kneeling is what you do when you ask a woman to accept an engagement ring."
-Piotr Kownacki, head of the President's Office, on Prime Minister Donald Tusk saying he is ready to beg President Lech Kaczyński on his knees not to veto a bill aiming to reform the national pension system

"Poland is ruled by a liberal mafia, and dealing with the mafia requires a strong hand. And don't tell me this is unethical; was it ethical to promise us an economic miracle?"
-Roman Gałęzewski, a Solidarity trade union activist from the Gdańsk Shipyard; angry at planned pension reforms, the unionists intend to publish the private addresses of deputies from the ruling coalition

"Funerals are the only times when the Polish left is united."
-A member of the Democratic Left Alliance on the fact that the funeral of Mieczysław Rakowski, the last leader of the Polish communist party, was attended by all leftist groupings

Compiled from press reports