‘Andrew is not a victim. Andrew is an instrument.’

Pam Brunson, 75, mother of Andrew Brunson, 50, the American pastor jailed in Turkey since 2016. Andrew Brunson’s May 7 trial ended in another continuation, and his next court appearance is scheduled for July 18.

‘You cannot be a champion of women when you are hitting them and choking them.’

Michelle Manning Barish, one of four women who told The New Yorker that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had physically abused them. He resigned on May 7.

‘We haven’t previously rescinded an honorary degree.’

Yale University spokesman Thomas Conroy after Yale University’s Board of Trustees voted to rescind the honorary degree it conferred on Bill Cosby in 2003. A jury on April 26 found Cosby guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.

‘There’s nobody who can put their arm around him and say, “For the good of the cause, my friend, your time has come.”’

Former Missouri Democratic Chairman Roy Temple on Eric Greitens, Missouri’s GOP governor, who faces two felony charges and perhaps impeachment. Greitens had no party affiliation or ideological ties before running for governor in 2016, and he has resisted calls from Republicans for him to step down. “You can’t threaten him with what it’s going to do to the party or the movement,” said Missouri Republican strategist Gregg Keller.

‘I did not put in 18 months of work to lead up to this moment, just to be told it didn’t matter anymore.’

Sophomore cheerleader Jada Alcontara of Hanover Park High School in East Hanover, N.J., on the school opening up cheerleading to all interested students when one parent complained that her daughter didn’t make the team after April tryouts. Alcontara and others who had made the team voiced their opposition to the new policy at a school board meeting.