"Freeways are not available from stores. You can't go into a store, buy them and then just install them."
-Infrastructure Minister Cezary Grabarczyk on problems with building a freeway network in Poland

"It seems that the former president is a Euro-enthusiast one day and a Euroskeptic the next."
-Ryszard Czarnecki, a politician from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, on former President Lech Wałęsa, who attended a congress of the European People's Party, the biggest faction in the European parliament, and then a convention of the Libertas movement, which opposes the Lisbon Treaty

"Surviving two years in a country ruled by Law and Justice was a bigger success than many an insurrection during the partitions [when Poland was occupied by neighboring countries for over 100 years]."
-Prof. Magdalena Środa, an ethicist, on Polish history

"These persons are suspected of breaking the law by publicly encouraging people to drink alcohol. We are investigating the matter."
-A prosecutor from Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki near Warsaw, on the organizers of a charity campaign last year in support of Georgia; the campaign slogan was, "Drink Georgian wine, don't be afraid of Putin"

Compiled from press reports