"For generations we have been fighting each other, hurling abuse at each other, always seeking to put the other down, to score points. Any excuse has us out writing new speeches, seeking new ways to castigate the other. I ask you tonight, what are the two longest-serving most public gangs in our community? Could they be just possibly, the UBP and PLP?" – Anti-racism campaigner Mike Winfield at a Bermuda Race Relations initiative meeting. The former UBP campaign chairman called for politicians to set a better example as violence escalates on the Island.

"What is the point of laws and regulations and the expert counsel of planners, conservation specialists, custodians of parklands and even an independent inspector, if a Minister can ignore it all, and in the process endorse the trashing of the very environment he is pledged to protect?" – Stuart Hayward, chairman of Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce (BEST), criticises Environment Minister Glenn Blakeney's endorsement of the Warwick Long Bay beach bar. Applicant Belcario Thomas said he wanted to create an "ambient, Ibiza-type bar" and would follow Government conservation and environmental guidelines to make it "as environmentally-friendly as possible".

"We all fall into the trap sometimes of pandering to racism, pandering to racists, because it suits our own political ends. When we stop it at our level, it will stop at other ends. When we start speaking and supporting high ideals as a group of people... they are crying out for us to take a stand. Stop maintaining the status quo. Step up, step out, stop the rhetoric." – Government MP Wayne Perinchief urges his Party to stop playing the race card after PLP backbencher Zane DeSilva criticised white Bermudians for voting in lines for the UBP and claimed it was why Charlie Swan won the Southampton West Central by-election.

"This is one of the toughest decisions I have ever made in my life, especially after more than 40 years of serving it... What they do is up to them. I have given up." Former United Bermuda Party leader Wayne Furbert as he resigned from the party to protest the pace of reform.

"This shows an incredible disrespect for all those who have gone before us,""These are not just stones sticking out of the ground. There are people buried there." – St. Peter's Anglican Church minister the Rev. David Raths in the wake of vandalism of ancient gravestones.