No country can be placed in trusteeship. It would not be reasonable, democratic [or] efficient. – President Nicolas Sarkozy responding to a German suggestion that a Brussels official be sent to manage Greece's affairs.
I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. – Former governor Mitt Romney on Tuesday, after he had won the Florida Republican primary. Romney on Thursday said his comments were an accidental "misstatement"
Europe's new fiscal treaty was specifically crafted with a view to minimising the prospect of a referendum in Ireland. – The Irish Times quoting senior anonymous European source
There were no instructions to Government officials to minimise the prospect of a referendum; what they were given was a mandate to maximise Ireland's interests. - Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dáil
What we are looking at here is another example of you having one message for the domestic audience but saying something quite different at a European level. – Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald responding to Kenny
How is it possible for anybody to publish something that is just not true, completely not true and it's not just misinterpretation, you know, or mistranslation – it's just a completely different story? – young Polish woman "Magda" on a subsequently repudiated newspaper story accusing her of being a welfare tourist