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Who said what this week

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“The non-partisan Congressio­nal Budget Office announced yesterday that under the GOP plan, 22 million people would lose their health coverage. That’s a big number. To put that number into perspectiv­e, if you laid 22 million people end to end, it would reach Canada, where they could get health care.” Stephen Colbert, Late Show host “I don’t want to be branded as a gay minister, just as my colleagues don’t want to be primarily defined as being straight.” Ana Brnabic after she was sworn in as the first female and first openly gay prime minister of Serbia “TSA has no prohibitio­n on transporti­ng lobsters. It’s actually fairly common in the New England region.” TSA spokespers­on Michael

McCarthy after airport screeners in Boston found a 20-pound live lobster in a person’s checked luggage “Mr. President, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America.” U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, after Donald Trump mocked television host Mika Brzezinski in vulgar terms on Twitter “I’m making comedy for people to laugh because their life is essentiall­y tragic.” Actor T.J. Miller on leaving the hit show Silicon Valley to have more time for standup “I laugh at least once every day, otherwise I cannot do this job.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview with women’s magazine Brigitte

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