"We recovered only 6 kg of the stolen meat. The perpetrators said they'd eaten the rest because they were very hungry."
-A police officer from Włodawa, Lublin province, where two 19-year-olds broke into a local meat processing plant and stole 120 kilograms of sausage, ham, bacon and sirloin

"To stay true to Polish history and at the same time to improve relations with Russia-now that's a hell of a dilemma."
-Prime Minister Donald Tusk, reacting to Russian media reports claiming that Poland was an ally of Hitler and that its foreign policy sparked off World War II

"With whom are we supposed to discuss this-the children of Lenin?"
-Archbishop Sławoj Leszek Głódź on the Democratic Left Alliance's suggestion that in order to help the cash-strapped public health service, priests employed in hospitals should work for free

"He should go see a therapist. This is a person who loves himself; and narcissism can be fatal."
-Marek Migalski, a Euro deputy from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, on Sławomir Nowak, a senior political advisor to the prime minister
Compiled from press reports