Quotables

‘I figured if his bomb was real I’d nothing to lose anyway.’

British passenger Ben Innes, 26, on his request to have his photo taken with Seif Eldin Mustafa as Mustafa was hijacking an EgyptAir plane on March 29. Mustafa granted the request. The explosives in Mustafa’s bomb belt turned out to be fake, and the six-hour standoff in Cyprus ended peacefully.

‘Always, there is a woman.’

Nicos Anastasiades, after a reporter asked if the EgyptAir hijacking (see above) had something to do with a woman. Hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, reportedly wanted a meeting with his ex-wife in Cyprus.

‘My clients would love to be a conscientious objector, but the government insists that they be a conscientious collaborator. There is no such thing.’

Attorney Paul Clement, arguing at the Supreme Court on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor and six other parties challenging the Obama administration’s contraceptive and abortifacient mandate.

‘What kind of people target innocent people and little children in a park?’

Christian resident Amanat Masih at the site of an Easter evening bombing perpetrated by Muslim terrorists in Lahore, Pakistan. Masih lost two sons and a nephew in the attack.

‘I was not thinking straight.’

American Mohamad Khweis, 26, on his decision to leave his home in Virginia and travel to join the Islamic State in Syria. Kurdish forces apprehended Khweis after, he said, he deserted ISIS because he disagreed with their ideology. Kurdish officials said “relevant security authorities” are questioning him.