Quotables

‘It was horror.’

A 28-year-old woman identified only as Katja L. in reports, on being groped and assaulted by a gang of men in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve. Police said roving packs of “Arab or North African” men assaulted dozens of women—and raped at least one—in Cologne on Dec. 31. Similar incidents occurred in Stuttgart and Hamburg. The news ignited debate in Germany about the wisdom of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy last year of admitting hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees.

‘58.’

The percentage of Americans who have an unfavorable opinion of Islam, according to a YouGov/Huffington Post survey. Only 17 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Islam.

‘Uh, you’d have to ask—I am not one.’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, on Jan. 5, asked her what the difference is between a Democrat and a Socialist.

‘If we are funded for it and Congress says you are going to have a ninth cutter, I guess that is how it goes. But we are good with eight.’

Chad Saylor, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman, on unnecessary funding that lobbyists secured in a year-end spending bill passed by the Republican majority in Congress.

‘For the feminist sect women … are convenient objects useful for the purpose of inflaming hatred against the Christian religion, hatred against men, hatred against the beauty of women, hatred against the equilibrium of families.’

Sara Fernanda Giromini, formerly a leading feminist activist in Brazil, on the views of radical feminists. Giromini says she has repented of having had an abortion: “Please, women who are desperate to abort, think carefully about it. I was very sorry I did it.”