"This is the fault of women who have stopped wearing natural furs, meaning that our hunters shoot much fewer foxes than in the past."
-Nikolai Vlasov, chief veterinarian of the Russian Federation, explaining a rise in rabies in recent months

"God touched Donald Tusk, giving him genius and incredible intuition."
-Sławomir Nowak, a Civic Platform politician and a former top aide to Prime Minister Tusk

"It's not hard to notice that the profiles of the three former presidents (Wojciech Jaruzelski, Lech Wałęsa and Aleksander Kwaśniewski) are smaller than the notes about Rudolf and Molly, the cats of the president and his wife."
-An article in a weekly analyzing recent changes to the official website of President Lech Kaczyński

"Our officials went there to take over the apartment as the owner had continuously failed to pay the rent. Now the amount of debt is being calculated."
-An official from a housing administration company in Żary, Lubuskie province, where officials found a 70-year-old man dead in his apartment; doctors estimated he died four years ago

Compiled from press reports