"For the Democratic Left Alliance, she's like Snow White. Compared to her, Alliance chairman Grzegorz Napieralski is like an ugly dwarf."
-Tomasz Nałęcz from the leftist Polish Social Democrats, on former First Lady Jolanta Kwaśniewska, who might run in the presidential elections next year

"Witnesses say the man was drinking methylated spirit a few minutes earlier. He probably spilled some on his clothes."
-An ambulance worker from Lębork, Pomorskie province, on a 60-year-old man, who lit a cigarette and suddenly caught fire at the local railway station

"His chances are similar to those of the two parties he wants to
collaborate with: their support falls almost within the margin of statistical error, and we all know that if you add zero plus zero, the result will be the same."
-Mariusz Błaszczak, press officer for the opposition Law and Justice party, on its former deputy leader Ludwik Dorn and his plans to create a new rightist grouping

"A pipe is an effective way of lending even the most stupid face an intelligent look."
-Fr. Adam Boniecki, a Catholic journalist
Compiled from press reports