"I admit most of our members are atheists, but we also have people who are religious, so we try to take that into account. Priests say that Joseph Stalin was greatly respected by Russian Orthodox believers."
-Sergei Malinkovich, leader of Russian political group St. Petersburg Communists, on why he applied to the Russian Orthodox Church for Stalin to be made a saint

"I'm not a dog serving the media."
-Michał Boni, chief adviser to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, interrupting a radio interview when a journalist asked questions about the government's election promises that Boni considered "too aggressive"

"The biggest success of the present government is the effective implementation of the motto 'minimum work, maximum popularity'."
-Tadeusz Cymański, a deputy from the opposition Law and Justice party, summing up the first year of government by the Civic Platform (PO)-Polish People's Party coalition

"You say such things in public that you should have an embargo even on breathing."
-Sebastian Karpiniuk, a PO deputy, to Antoni Macierewicz, who headed a committee supervising the disbanding of the former military intelligence service

Compiled from press reports