"Those in power should be like a good film director-their work should go unnoticed, and this is exactly what is happening."
-Popular actor Marek Kondrat on why he likes the way PO governs Poland

"Some people in the Civic Platform (PO) say that the National Remembrance Institute should be punished, but those kind of opinions testify to a lack of understanding about scientific research."
-PO deputy Jarosław Gowin, on some of his fellow party members calling for a cut in the IPN's budget, after the institute's researchers alleged in a book that former Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa had collaborated with communist-era security services

"I can change the oil and change a wheel because Janek won't touch such things."
-Nelly Rokita, a deputy from the Law and Justice party, on her husband Jan Maria Rokita, a former leading light in the PO

"In the West, governments try to solve the problem of poverty at the expense of the rich; in Russia it's exactly the opposite, [Prime Minister] Vladimir Putin defends his friends' and oligarchs' interests at the expense of taxpayers."
-Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, now an activist in the democratic opposition in Russia

Compiled from press reports