CITATION PLEASE
Who said what this week
“I even sent him a pair of z02 (sneakers), come on now. Red, white and blue, show him that we patriotic. And didn’t get a thankyou. But I ain’t gonna stress it out.”
LaVar Ball continues his war of words with U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed credit for getting Ball’s son LiAngelo released from China after the young basketball player was arrested for shoplifting
“We must not lose sight that this watershed moment is bigger than any one industry, any one party or any one person.”
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand calling for Sen. Al Franken, a fellow Democrat, to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct, which he later did
“Look, I’m a heterosexual. I have a wife. I love my wife. I don’t like men — as you might. But stop touching me all the time.”
Pennsylvania Rep. Daryl Metcalfe interrupts a committee meeting to accost his Democratic counterpart for touching his arm during the meeting
“It’s ‘not reflective of who I am’ — it’s that kind of response to this stuff that pisses me off.”
HBO host John Oliver, moderating a screening panel, criticizes Dustin Hoffman’s defence against allegations of sexual harassment
“Those moments that you were robbed, you don’t get them back.”
Canadian cross-country skier Devon
Kershaw, reflecting on past Olympic losses against athletes who dope, in light of the IOC’s decision to ban Russia from competing in the 2018 Winter Games
“God is weeping over President Donald Trump’s inflammatory and discriminatory recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu