CITATION PLEASE

Who said what this week

“I would like to remind everyone that I possess a firearm and am authorized to use self-defence.”

Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that ended Communist rule in Poland, castigating the current Polish government for seizing control of the judicial system

“There’s no way in the world that I would be holding onto a corpse for four-and-a-half years.”

Nailah Winkfield, on moving from California to New Jersey so her daughter could receive care after being declared brain dead in 2013; the fiercely debated case ended this week when her daughter was finally buried

“Is he related to Mickey Rooney?”

A sports fan in Washington, D.C., asked by a British reporter what he knew about new DC United soccer signing Wayne Rooney

“I will hike again, I will hike alone again, but I will take better precautions.”

Claire Nelson, a 35-year-old from Toronto, on surviving for 96 hours after she broke her pelvis hiking in Joshua Tree National Park

“You never expect to open a fridge and find someone in there alive. Can you imagine if we had begun the autopsy and killed her?” A worker at a government mortuary in South Africa describes the horror of hearing one of the victims of a traffic accident still breathing

“In that political structure — all the non-truths, the bulls--t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on — I feel like I could not exist. I would not be able to do it. It’s not a clean business. It would kill me.” Oprah Winfrey, denying — once again — that she might consider a 2020 presidential run