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QUOTES
(^) By Olivia B. Waxman
(^2019) THE YEAR IN
‘WE MAY HAVE TO
SEEK ANOTHER
WAY TO PROTECT
OUR COUNTRY’S
SOVEREIGNTY
AND INTERESTS.’
‘THE DEFINITION OF AN
ATHLETE IS SOMEONE
WHO ON THE COURT
TREATS YOU LIKE YOUR
WORST ENEMY BUT
OFF THE COURT CAN BE
YOUR BEST FRIEND.’
‘Greenland is not
for sale.’
KIM KIELSEN, Prime Minister of Greenland,
responding on Aug. 16 to reports that U.S.
President Donald Trump was interested in
buying the island‘One way or another, we will leave
the E.U. with this deal.’
BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. Prime Minister, after
Parliament on Oct. 22 rejected a proposal
that would have approved his Brexit plan by
the Oct. 31 deadline
‘Give me your tired and your
poor who can stand on their
own two feet.’
KEN CUCCINELLI, then acting U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services
director, tweaking the poem on the Statue
of Liberty on Aug. 13 to justify a rule that
could deny green cards to immigrants
receiving public assistance‘If anybody else did that, it would be
considered a crime.’
NANCY PELOSI, U.S. Speaker of the House,
accusing Attorney General William Barr of
lying to Congress about the Mueller report’s
findings, on May 2‘There will not be a separate
admissions system for the wealthy.
And there will not be a separate
criminal-justice system either.’
ANDREW LELLING, U.S. Attorney for
the District of Massachusetts, announcing
March 12 that the Justice Department
was pursuing allegations of a college-
admissions racket‘I don’t want to have
a heart that is boiling
like a volcano.’
FARID AHMED, a survivor of the March 15
shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand,
speaking at a remembrance service about
why he forgives the perpetrator‘Storm Area 51,
They Can’t Stop All of Us.’
THE NAME OF A FACEBOOK EVENT jokingly
calling on people to rush the Nevada Air Force
base; the event got more than a million
RSVPs, but at most 3,000 came in peace
Sept. 20–22 for a music festival nearbyKIM JONG UN,
North Korean
dictator, in a
New Year’s Day
warning about the
consequences of
U.S. sanctionsCOCO GAUFF, tennis
player, lauding the
sportsmanship of
opponent Naomi
Osaka, who comforted
the 15-year-old
after defeating
her at the
U.S. Open on
Aug. 31‘TODAY,
WE
CAN ’ T
BREATHE.’
GWEN CARR, mother of Eric
Garner, whose death galvanized
Black Lives Matter, when the
Justice Department said July 16
it wouldn’t bring federal charges
against the NYC police officer
who put her son in a choke hold;
the officer has since been fired‘YOUR QUARREL,
SIR, IS WITH
MY CREATOR.’
PETE BUTTIGIEG,
2020 Democratic
presidential hopeful,
who is gay, on Vice
President Mike
Pence’s LGBTQ
policy positions,
at an April 7
event‘TO UNDERMINE
A PRESIDENT IS
REALLY A VERY
DANGEROUS
THING.’
NIKKI HALEY, former
U.N. ambassador,
claiming Nov. 10
that fellow Trump
Admin. officials
wanted her to go
behind his back
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