"I'm perfect, so I don't need to change anything about myself."
-Joanna Senyszyn, a deputy from the opposition Democratic Left Alliance, on her New Year's resolutions

"The ancient Greeks and Shakespeare have shown us that politics is passion and this will not be changed by simply changing the constitution."
-Former President Aleksander Kwaśniewski on plans to amend the constitution to limit disputes over the powers of the president and prime minister

"There approaches a wave of negation, of indifference, of a cooling down of religious feeling... forced upon the nations confederated in the EU by the European parliament."
-Gdańsk Archbishop Sławoj Leszek Głódź on the situation in Europe during a sermon he gave on the 17th anniversary of the founding of controversial Catholic radio station Radio Maryja

"A woman drove to a police station in the same car she had reported stolen. She didn't expect the officers would spot her car parked a couple of blocks away."
-A Warsaw police officer on a wave of fictitious car thefts aimed at claiming insurance

Compiled from press reports