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Who said what this week

“I couldn’t feel my legs and I was crying a lot … They kept telling us that they’re getting help, but we were all freaking out.”

SOMA ODIMMA, 12, ON BEING STUCK UPSIDE DOWN ON THE SWINGING LUMBERJACK RIDE AT CANADA’S WONDERLAND FOR HALF AN HOUR

“So, basically, I bought an iced cap from Tim Hortons … no, it’s like, I bought one but then, they are not giving me a replacement.”

A PEEL REGION 911 CALLER, CONCEDING THERE WAS NO EMERGENCY BUT COMPLAINING ABOUT A FOULED-UP COFFEE ORDER

“It’s divisive, it’s derided, it’s ugly, it’s all of those things.” DAVID CAREY, CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF BENTWAY CONSERVANCY, ON THE GARDINER EXPRESSWAY’S IMAGE

“He gets up, chases her around the room, forces her clothes off, pushes her onto the bed and pins her down. She says no, ‘stop this.’ He’s stronger, he’s taller. She’s trapped, and she knows it.” TORONTO CROWN ATTORNEY

ANA SERBAN, OUTLINING IN COURT AN ALLEGED ATTACK BY FORMER FASHION MOGUL PETER NYGARD

“I wish to make clear that no one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them.” PARLIAMENT’S THEN-SPEAKER ANTHONY ROTA, ON PRAISING A MAN WHO FOUGHT IN A NAZI UNIT IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

“The fact that this individual, and by proxy the organization he was a member of, was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons is deeply troubling.”

DAN PANNETON, DIRECTOR WITH THE FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER, DEDICATED TO HOLOCAUST EDUCATION

“All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped even though we did so unaware of the context.”

PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU

“Such sloppiness of memory is outrageous. Many Western countries, including Canada, have raised a young generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the Second World War. And they know nothing about the threat of fascism.”

KREMLIN SPOKESPERSON DMITRY PESKOV

“We’re in so much debt, we’re driving up deficits so fast, we are devaluing American money so rapidly that in America today, you can’t even bribe Democrat senators with cash alone. You need to bring gold bars to get the job done, just so the bribes hold in value.”

U.S. CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ, ON THE PAYOFF ALLEGEDLY ACCEPTED BY SEN. BOB MENENDEZ

“It’s good to be home.”

FRANK RUBIO, UPON RETURNING AFTER HIS SPACEFLIGHT ACCIDENTALLY BECAME THE LONGEST BY AN AMERICAN: 371 DAYS