Quotables

‘A cancer in our system.’

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the growing number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers. Investigators in January accused UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic of paying girls for sex, in some cases as little as 50 cents.

‘I love kids. I ache for kids. But I love my life more. You can’t have it all; you really can’t.’

Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, 45, on her decision not to have children.

‘Anti-Islamic ... blasphemous.’

The labels the Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan gave to a parliament bill that would have raised the legal age of marriage for females from 16 to 18 and would have increased the punishment to up to two years in prison for anyone who organized child marriages. The bill was rejected.

‘Sometimes we dare not tell how it is because we think it plays into the hands of the Sweden Democrats.’

Peter Agren, who directed police operations at the “We Are Sthlm” youth festival in Stockholm in 2014, on the reluctance of police to tell the public about Muslim harassment of women at public events because such reports might help a Swedish anti-immigration party. Reports that police covered up sexual assaults at the 2015 festival have caused a scandal in Sweden.

‘Sort of like Moral Therapeutic Deism—just without the morality and therapy parts.’

Justin Taylor, executive vice president of book publishing at Crossway, in a tweet on the theology of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

‘A major policy concern.’

Dudley Poston, demographer at Texas A&M, in a new report that found 17 European nations, including Russia, Germany, and Italy, have more people dying than being born. “Natural decrease,” he and colleagues wrote, diminishes “economic viability and competitiveness.”