"When one party expresses sharp rhetoric, it's been responded to in like. This behaviour from both sides has now, in my view, whipped up those irresponsible elements amongh the ranks who are capable of that sort of behaviour on both sides'.

– Former UBP Senator and current PLP supporter Llewellyn Peniston

"A dangerous precedent has been set whereby SDOs are used to enable large tourism developments to opt out of Bermuda's planning process."

Dorcas Roberts, the National Trust's environmental conservation officer.

"Say what you mean and mean what you say. They don't think we should be using presenters' voices in the ads. Why didn't the Chairman write about that? Then I wouldn't have a problem. And you don't hear poeple complaining about all those e-mails going around."

– Kristy Burgess, aka Miss Thang, a radio host on Hott 107.5

"... A UBP vote is a vote back to the plantation. it is a vote that will return the shackles to our feet! it is a vote that will keep us as slaves because the UBP has one aim; to ensure that we, the working class, the underprivileged, never get our fair share of that economic pie... Emancipate yourselves!"

– first-time PLP candidate Lovitta Foggo at the party's East End rally. Ms Foggo knocked out UBP incumbent Suzann Roberts Holshouser.

"The result of the 2007 election was something of a surprise as I was expecting it to be rather closer. However, like many I am very glad that the campaigning is at an end. The nastiness that we have seen over the past few weeks was both unseemly and unworthy of those who so indulged themselves for purely political ends."

– Anglican Bishop Ewan Ratteray speaking after the election.

"Nasty must work. I was confident ... obviously it didn't resonate. I wish Patrice Minors all the best."

– Michael Dunkley, the defeated former United Bermuda Party leader.

"I'm doing great. I'm very shocked. People need to realise that I have a deep empathy for Bermuda and its people and they clearly spoke today. I'm Bermudian. I love this island and I want the best for it."

– Michael Dunkley again.

"People are not afraid to come out and say who they support. There was a time when United Bermuda Party (UBP) supporters were stealth voters. You'd never know they were UBP voters. Now they have flags on their cars. They have t-shirts. No more closet elections."

– Premier Dr. Ewart Brown during a visit to the Smiths South polling station during election day.

"The modification and adoption of this piece of legislation into Bermuda will not accomplish that same feat because those doors are already wide open. The reality of why Bermudians are not expeditiously marching through those doors lies in the failure of our education system. Specifically, the public education system."

– Bermuda Employers Council boss Willie DeSilva has said poor schools were limiting opportunities for Bermudians as he criticised the Workforce Equity Act.

"I expected a convincing victory. I know many months ago I called for 30 seats but a victory like this is just as a sweet."

– Premier Brown on election night.