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Who said what this week

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“He has always been obsessed people are laughing at the president. From the mid-’80s, he’s said: ‘The world is laughing at us. They think we’re fools.’ It’s never been true, but he’s said it about every president. It’s the first time I’m aware of that people actually laughed at a president. I think it is going to drive him absolutely crazy. ”

Thomas Wright, an analyst at the Brookings Institutio­n, on the UN General Assembly laughing when Donald Trump bragged about his accomplish­ments “It’s not only closure, but it’s gratificat­ion. They got him. That’s the point that needs to be stressed. “

Craig Kujawski on the return of the remains his great-uncle Willard (Bud) Jenkins, a U.S. army paratroope­r killed in the Second World War. “I don’t want to be the mayor of a museum, that’s to say pretty walls where people spend a bit of time and then leave. It’s important that town centres remain authentic and alive. In fact, that’s what tourists come for.”

Jacques Boutault, mayor of Paris’ central 2nd arrondisse­ment, on the rise in Airbnb rentals. “True love overcomes even the largest of rivalries.” A tweet from the U.S. Olympic

Committee after Canadian women’s hockey team forward Gillian Apps married American forward Meghan Duggan “Are we to go back through history now and anyone who has misbehaved in any way or has broken the law or has committed some kind of offence, are they always going to be cut out?” Judi Dench on removing Kevin Spacey from All the Money in the World

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