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Who said what this week

“They are dying, that’s true. And … it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can. It’s under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague.”

U.S. President Donald Trump, defending the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, in an interview with Axios “We all have someone who is wounded, who is still not found, who is dead … The community is extremely sad. There’s anguish and despair. But at the same time we’re mobilized, and we want to help every way we can.”

Lamia Charlebois, a member of Montreal’s Lebanese community, after the devastating explosion in Beirut “We were looking for revolution and found it in parish halls with tea and biscuits and late-night meetings under fluorescents. We were looking for a negotiator who understood that no one wins unless everyone wins and that peace is the only victory … We were looking for a great leader and found a great servant. We found John Hume.”

U2 frontman Bono, paying tribute to late Northern Irish leader John Hume, a driving force behind the Good Friday peace agreement “Once we descended a little bit into the atmosphere, the Dragon, really, it came alive. It doesn’t sound like a machine; it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere, with all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise.” NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, describing the trip back to Earth on the SpaceX Dragon capsule