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Who said what this week

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“It should be obvious to all that portraying such representa­tions in the streets of Europe is absolutely unthinkabl­e, 74 years after the Holocaust.”

Margaritis Schinas, a spokespers­on for the European Commission, after a carnival parade in Belgium included a float featuring puppets with crooked noses and large sacks of money

“I have been assassinat­ed. I have been buried alive, but I’m alive.”

Singer R. Kelly, telling CBS News’s Gayle King that he is being persecuted by false accusation­s of sexual abuse, which he was charged with last month

“It must instil a sense of pride in our people, and unite our people. It must also be easy to say.”

Danny Mataroa of the Cook Islands, explaining what his government committee is looking for in a new name for the islands, one that no longer references the British explorer Captain James Cook

“I’m skeptical of the hype, because in this world it’s like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown: Each time we get our hopes up (for a new depression treatment), the football gets pulled away.”

Dr. Erick Turner, an associate professor of psychiatry, on the approval of a new fast-acting drug for resistant depression derived from the widely used anesthetic ketamine

“My wife, my grandson, they’re not replaceabl­e. Nothing matters more than life.”

Troy Hardy the day after surviving a tornado with his family in Alabama; their house was destroyed

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