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Who said what this week

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“I didn’t see why it was necessary to fire her. Why would you murder someone who’s committing suicide?”

Jerry Seinfeld on the firing of Roseanne Barr from her ABC sitcom relaunch for controvers­ial tweetsthat included a racist comment about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett “Today, people have a selfish idea that they are better off without having children. In order for everyone to pursue happiness, we should have (women) bear many children, so our country will prosper and develop.”

Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party. His comments sparked widespread criticism from opposition politician­s “We pray for his healing and for God’s forgivenes­s on him, but we must rebuke his errors.” Philippine­s Archbishop Socrates

Villegas, crticizing President Rodrigo Duterte for publicly calling God a “stupid” SOB “As long as he’s not with me, I will not be at peace.”

Elsa Johana Ortiz, a Guatemalan woman who was deported from the U.S. without her 8-year-old son, applauding a judicial ruling ordering the Trump administra­tion to reunite more than 2,000 children with their parents “The assault lasted only minutes but what he was effectivel­y telling me, while he held my genitals in his hand, was that he held the power, that he was in control.” Actor and former football player Terry Crews telling a Senate committee his story of being sexually abused in 2016 by a Hollywood agent

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