"The crisis has its roots in original sin; until that moment, the Bible says, everything was wonderful... the present world crisis also has its roots in sin"
- Father Ireneusz Skubi¶, a columnist with the Catholic weekly Niedziela

"My job at the store is to push the shopping cart and pay at the check-out"
- Tomasz aGłogowski, a deputy from the ruling Civic Platform (PO) party, refusing to take part in a newspaper survey on food prices

"We will decide next year whose monument it will be, and the appropriate inscriptions will be carved out then"
- Jacek Cegła, City Hall press officer at the popular seaside resort of Ustka, on a one-and-a-half-meter-high stone recently placed on a city street

"Among young people, you earn respect by taking the blame and not grassing on others"
- Artur N., 19, from Mr±gowo, Warmia-Mazuria province, on why he admitted to a robbery that he didn't commit. He spent nine months in custody
Compiled from press reports