'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'

'I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside ... but I will never ever again come back.'

'I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse.'

'If the constitution goes, I go.'

There is a cancer on the presidency.

The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.

There is no doubt that Jacomoni and Visconti Prasca have a large share of the responsibility in the Albanian affair, but the real blame must be sought elsewher…