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Who said what this week

“Let there be no mistake that Canada, alongside all of our democratic allies, stands strong for Ukraine, and everything we do is motivated by our pursuit of de-escalation and a diplomatic solution.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Russia ramped up actions on Ukraine border.

“This convoy is really about Mr. Trudeau and the fact that people are tired. There’s a fatigue in this country, there’s division and there’s millions of people who feel they’re no longer being heard.” Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole on the trucker protest convoy working its way across the country

“It’s leaving me with my jaw open, like, ‘What?’”

Art Spiegelman on his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel “Maus,” based on his Jewish parents surviving the Holocaust, being banned in a Tennessee school district for being “objectionable.”

“Antisemitism is here — it isn’t just on the extreme fringe, not just among the eternally incorrigible and a few antisemitic trolls on the net. It is a problem of our society — all of society.”

German Parliament speaker Baerbel Bas on International Holocaust Remembrance Day says the pandemic has acted “like an accelerant” to an already burgeoning problem.

“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”

Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who later apologized for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teen who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her familyin an Amsterdam house for two years

“The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own.”

Kennedy’s wife, actress Cheryl Hines, who called Kennedy’s reference to Anne Frank “reprehensible and insensitive.”