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Who said what this week

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“I feel people created an image of him, and they want that image to remain in the public’s consciousn­ess. It’s the image that sells. So when someone says he’s a humble and simple man, they don’t like to hear that.”

Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of accused drug lord Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman

“It’s like a manhood thing for him — as if manhood could ever be associated with him.”

Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, telling fellow Democrats about her meeting with President Donald Trump and his obsession with funding his promised border wall with Mexico

“The influence I had didn’t work.…”

Pierre Fitzgibbon, Quebec’s economy minister, after Via Rail announced it was buying $1 billion in trains from Siemens, not Quebec-based Bombardier. Fitzgibbon had promised to use all of his influence to make Via Rail change its mind

“It’s not a trick question. You know, you make $100 million a year. You ought to be able to answer that question.”

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe after Google CEO Sundar Pichai prevaricat­ed at a committee hearing when Poe asked if Google tracked his movements through his iPhone

“It’s a bad episode of Pimp My Ride.”

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, on a reported request from a Premier Doug Ford staffer that the OPP provide him with a customized camperstyl­e vehicle

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