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Who said what this week

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“Last time I checked, the First Amendment is at least as important as the Second Amendment.” ABC late-night TV host Jimmy

Kimmel on why it’s not too soon to discuss gun control following the Las Vegas massacre. “Dan Brown is back with another thriller so moronic you can feel your IQ points flaking away like dandruff.” Washington Post books editor

Ron Charles begins his review of Dan Brown’s new novel, Origin. “Why do people think to get happy you have to get drunk? That doesn’t even last — it’s not even a pure happy.” “Broughdale grandma” Bess Srahu

lek, whose London, Ont., street was the site of a huge, unsanction­ed Western party. Students have raised more than $1,000 to replant her damaged garden. “The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away.” British Foreign Secretary Boris

Johnson “praising” the Libyan port city of Sirte as having the potential to become the next Dubai; U.K. critics denounced the remark as “a disgrace.” “The places I come from, we don’t deal with that kind of petty nonsense.” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declines to refute a news report that he called the president a “moron.” “I hope you noticed that . . . the Chancellor giving something away for free.” U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May accepting a candy from Philip Hammond during a speech marred by a coughing fit, a prankster and a falling sign.

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