"We didn't know and there was no way for us to know" - Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dimitar Tsanchev on the owner of EU lobbyist company Shimon Sheves, convicted in two cases of using his position "to promote the financial interests of friends"
"Bulgaria's soldiers are not for sale."
"The perverted film shot by Yanko Vatashki at Sofia prison is a balloon, which is being deliberately swollen because of the ongoing peer review under "Justice and Home Affairs Chapter."
"Next time they might just as well say I met Bin Laden!" Volen Siderov, leader of nationalist Ataka party, after the Associated Press incorrectly reported he attended the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic
"Everything that I said so far for the referee doesn't count anymore!" - Journalist Tomislav Russev on Levski's victory over Italy's Udinese, which took the Bulgarians to UEFA Cup quarterfinals
"Only a complete idiot, only a thief could throw away asphalt and boast he is doing something useful". - Sofia mayor Boyko Borissov on the legacy of pot-holes that he inherited from his predecessors
"Stela Bankova is more or less of an adult and she can decide on her own". - Petar Beron, MP from nationalist Ataka party, on Bankova's split from its parliamentary group
"Stela Bankova is more or less of an adult and she can decide on her own". - Petar Beron, MP from nationalist Ataka party, on Bankova's split from its parliamentary group.
I want us to viscously punish the little Italians. I want us to crush them.
This impertinence, a politician who just hatched yesterday and today is acting like Mussolini, (...) creates uneasiness.
If [Sofia Mayor] Boyko Borissov was a real man, he would handle the garbage crisis, instead of whining to the media.
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