"Rich countries have been carrying out mass vaccination campaigns, poor countries are buying vaccines for at-risk groups only, while in Poland, the health minister has chosen a third way: she is advising citizens to drink tea with raspberry juice."
-Psychiatrist Marek Balicki, health minister in a former leftist government, on current health minister Ewa Kopacz

"He's like the popular fairy-tale character-Cinderella's step sister: lazy, vain and possessive."
-Aleksander Szczygło, head of the president's National Security Bureau, on Prime Minister Donald Tusk

"Adolf Hitler had no God in his heart-just like the European Union today."
-Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, the founder and owner of the ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja broadcaster, in a sermon marking 18 years since the radio station was set up

"Today, he is the number one figure on Earth, the touchstone for all issues on our planet."
-Mikhail Boyarsky, a popular Russian actor, on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; a Moscow weekly named Boyarsky Bootlicker of the Year 2009
Compiled from press reports