"College education, five years of experience in management, computer skills and good English."
-Some of the requirements for the job of public toilet manager in Poznań

"Please do not send my beloved ministers away to Brussels. I want them here, all of them."
-Prime Minister Donald Tusk on a wave of media speculation about several of his ministers who may run in the European Parliament elections this year

"A party is not a criminal organization, so there is no reason why city officials should not appear on promotional materials."
-Maria Kurowska from Law and Justice (PiS), mayor of Jasło, Podkarpacie province, after City Office staff appeared on local posters promoting PiS

"We adopted Western theories twice, trying to put them into practice-first, Marxism, then, liberalism. Now we have to rely on our own concepts."
-Andrei Klimov, a Russian Duma deputy, on the political system in Russia

Compiled from press reports