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Who said what this week

“I feel like a refugee — we’ve got nothing. This was 40 years of our lives. I’ve run out of tears.”

Australian Peter Williams, whose family lost everything in the bushfires that continue to rage in southeastern Australia

“There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life. It’s possible they’re here right now and we simply can’t see them.”

British astronaut Helen Sharman, on her belief that aliens are real, and could be living among us

“The prime minister is being revealed as a hollow spin doctor who is inept as a leader in a national emergency. He will never live this down.”

Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has followed climate politics for three decades, on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison

“I didn’t run from justice, I want justice.”

Former Renault-Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn, who compared his arrest by Japanese authorities to Pearl Harbor. He spoke from Lebanon, where he fled

“The right to freedom of expression … is not absolute.”

Brazilian judge Benedicto Abicair, in a temporary decision to block a film depicting Jesus as gay from Netflix. “The First Temptation of Christ” was produced in Brazil

“The problem is that they are not working for themselves, they are working for a family firm, and to be making announcements of this sort without consulting is beyond bizarre.”

Royal author Penny Junor, on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their hastily announced plans to become financially independent