"You don't want to make it sound like Armageddon, but I think we are in for a difficult winter." – Kristi Grayston, chairman of the retail division of Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, on a decline in local spending.

"The least our generation can do is say thank you and we are going to rename a building after you." – Minister of Culture Dale Butler on controversial proposals to rename St. David's Primary School after legendary principal Hilton C. Richardson.

"It is outright theft and I have lost respect for the Regiment." – The father of an absentee soldier claims the military police impounded a car that actually belonged to the soldier's girlfriend.

"It really seems like it's a perfect storm. It's a textbook example to study, because you've had a convergence of so many things happening and people feel like they're in a time warp, ricocheting from crisis to crisis." – Minister of Finance Paula Cox on the global financial crisis.

"The first thing I'll do is roll on the floors." – Housing lottery winner Tanya Darrell after learning that an affordable house in Southside will be available for her and her four sons in 2009.

"What's natural is that she should be the Island's first national hero. As a woman of firsts this singular honour is rightly bestowed on her and it is the least that we can do as the beneficiaries of her struggle." – Premier Ewart Brown heralds Dame Lois Browne-Evans on the first ever National Heroes' Day.

"We are not battling amongst ourselves. It's probably the best it's ever been in our history. Certainly it's the best it's been in the last decade." – Home Affairs Minister David Burch on Government's relationship with Government House.

"I have never expressed any intention to run for the Premiership, certainly at this stage. The Premier has my full support. This is mindboggling." – Then Education Minister (and now backbencher) Randy Horton counters speculation that he plans to challenge Ewart Brown at the PLP delegates' conference.

"Whenever there is a photo opportunity or a Kodak moment, he instantly prances out in front of his ministers thus diminishing their stature and enhancing his own." – Former Attorney General Phil Perinchief calls for Premier Ewart Brown to step down.