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Who said what this week

“To state the obvious, you don’t want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians.”

Former U.S. acting attorney general Sally Yates testifies she warned the Trump administration that Michael Flynn “could be blackmailed” because he lied about contact with Russian officials

“I wanna win a ring.”

Point guard Kyle Lowry explaining, on the day after the Raptors’ season ended, why he will opt out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent July 1

“I also want to thank Michelle Obama for, after the presidency, sticking with me. Because I think she felt an obligation to the country to stay on, but once her official duties were over, it wasn’t clear.”

Former U.S. president Barack Obama, as part of his acceptance speech for the Profile in Courage award

“I definitely had some extra motivation going into today.”

Tennis player Eugenie Bouchard, who had called Maria Sharapova a cheater for doping, explains how supportive texts from other players helped propel her to victory over Sharapova at the Madrid Open

“I’m a storyteller, and President Clinton’s insight has allowed us to tell a really interesting one.”

Author James Patterson on writing a thriller with the former U.S. chief called The President Is Missing, to be published in June 2018

“I am acutely aware that the upper chamber is more important than my moral failings.”

Don Meredith quits the Senate a week after an ethics committee ruled he should be kicked out for his sexual affair with a teenage girl

“Why sit on it?”

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, below, justifying the swift sacking of FBI director James Comey, who learned of his firing when it was splashed on a television screen