"A team of 24 officers started a search that, fortunately, didn't last long. It turned out the child was at school. The mother said she had completely forgotten."
-A Wrocław police officer on a woman with 0.25 percent alcohol content in her blood who reported to the police that her eight-year-old daughter was missing

"I don't like this building. It's small and full of deputies, officials, reporters, lobbyists, conmen and schoolchildren. It's very tiresome."
-Zyta Gilowska, finance minister in the former coalition government of Law and Justice, Samoobrona and the League of Polish Families, about the parliament building

"When he's older than Margaret Thatcher [85] is today and younger than Konrad Adenauer when he stepped down from office [87]."
-Jacek Kurski, a Euro MP from Law and Justice (PiS), answering a tabloid reporter's question on when Jarosław Kaczyński is going to resign as party leader

"My psychotherapist always tells me to let it all out. So I did."
-Adam Bielan, a key member of Lech Kaczyński's election staff, on his spontaneous joyful "Yes, yes, yes!" on learning that Donald Tusk would not run in this fall's presidential elections

Compiled from press reports