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Who said what this week

“It would be like pointing a gun to your head and expecting the others to do what you say just because otherwise you kill yourself.” Economist Lorenzo Codogno on an Italian proposal to create special mini bonds that some say would be a de facto currency that could splinter the EU “Go join the 6-year-olds in the park. Maybe you’ll get a participation trophy and an orange slice while you’re at it.” USA Today columnist Nancy

Armour attacking critics of the American women’s soccer team for excessively celebrating a 13-0 win over Thailand “Everybody’s been going crazy. I didn’t expect that to happen, and I didn’t put it in to offend everybody. I did it because my neighbours told me to get rid of my weeds.”

Steven Johnson, who constructed a three-metre-by-three-metre concrete swastika in his front yard “More of these men and women are going to get sick and they’re going to die, and I’m awfully tired of hearing this is a ‘New York issue.’ Al Qaeda didn’t shout ‘Death to Tribeca.’ They attacked America.” Jon Stewart, castigating a House Judiciary subcommittee over the potential loss of funding for 9/11 emergency responders