"I worked with Lech Wałęsa for three-and-a-half years. After I die, I guess I should go straight to heaven for that."
-Józef Oleksy, former leftist prime minister, on his relations with the former president

"Some have a talent for foreign languages, others don't. I'll tell you a secret: quite a while ago my husband and I celebrated the 30 years since he started learning English."
-Maria Kaczyńska, wife of President Lech Kaczyński, who herself speaks three foreign languages

"I'm a serious man and I'm not going to sign a declaration of honesty."
-Grzegorz Lato, new president of the Polish Soccer Association (PZPN), which has been plagued by corruption in recent years

"I'm a bit worried that I have no credit card terminal [in my store] but I can always put them down
in my book. I let customers buy things on credit, so I can do the same for the former president."
-The owner of a local store in Saminek near Grunwald, northeastern Poland, on learning that former president Aleksander Kwaśniewski and his wife have bought a 17-hectare plot in the area and plan to build a house there

Compiled from press reports