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“I will definitely not put it beyond our beleaguered prime minister to try to cash in on the Pope’s visit to score some points on the local front through anti divorce digs and tirades on his part.”
Leo Brincat
“A person accomplice of wrong doing and decides to come clean and uncover the whole affair would be entitled to State protection and not liability himself to a prison sentence.”
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi
“God forbid that the rules of the political game should be played about with in the manner proposed by Gonzi.”
Lino Spiteri
“With one side of his mouth the Prime Minister Gonzi tells the Leader of the Opposition to take his questions of corruption to the Police Commissioner. With the other side he denies the opposition the proper working of the mechanism of the Public Accounts Committee. Something's beginning to rot, somewhere.”
“An opposition leader deals with the Prime Minister, not with component parts of the executive. Were opposition members to go directly to members of the public administration with their queries, the government would surely yell 'foul!' And rightly so.”