"The defendant said the court could not order him to move around on foot anyway."
-A police officer from Jelenia Góra, Lower Silesia province, on a man stopped by police after he crossed a busy traffic intersection in a wheelchair with 0.2 percent alcohol in his blood

"We need to sit down together at the table, have some vodka and wild boar sausages, and things will be fine again."
-Janusz Palikot, a deputy from the Civic Platform (PO), on his recipe for solving conflicts in the ruling coalition of the Civic Platform and Polish People's Party

"He works in a schizophrenic way, and with typical symptoms: impaired perception of reality, weird hallucinations, problems of speech and thinking, and significant social and professional dysfunction."
-Joanna Senyszyn, EuroMP from the Democratic Left Alliance party, on Lech Kaczyński as president

"The proposal was a great honor, but I'm not one of those people who like to pretend they're working."
-Zbigniew Ćwi±kalski, former justice minister, on why he refused to run in the European Parliament elections

Compiled from press reports