Quotables

‘It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.’

An Associated Press statement on not publishing cartoon images of Muhammad following the Islamist attack on staffers of the French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo. The agency took down from its website images of Andres Serrano’s controversial 1987 “Piss Christ” photograph after critics noted the double standard toward religions.

‘Think of us when you’re warm.’

Ehab Yousef, a Syrian actor and refugee, in a video after Syrian president Bashar Assad underwent a “snow bucket challenge” to raise awareness of Syrian refugees from the war-torn country who are spending a fourth straight winter in freezing camps.

‘Now that Senator Boxer is stepping down, can we call her ma’am?’

Political commentator Ben Shapiro, in a Jan. 8 tweet. During a 2009 Senate hearing Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., upbraided U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh for calling her “ma’am” instead of “Senator.” Walsh had addressed male senators at the hearing as “sir.”

‘Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object?’

Former Arkansas Gov. and possible 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, on hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and his superstar wife Beyoncé in his new book, Gods, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.

‘When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible.’

Alex Malarkey, recanting claims he made at age 6 that he went to heaven after he went into a coma following a 2004 car accident. Tyndale House and Lifeway announced they will stop selling the book by Alex’s father Kevin, The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven.