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‘I ran away from Iraq so I would not see that ugly face and forget anything that reminds me of it, but I was shocked to see him in Germany.’

Ashwaq Haji Hamid, a young Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS and sold into slavery in Iraq in 2014, on encountering the man who enslaved her in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. “The first time was in 2016,” she said. “He was chasing me. He was the same person, but the second time, he came close to me and told me he knew everything about me.”

‘I wanted Paul Manafort to be innocent, but he wasn’t.’

Paula Duncan, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump who served on the jury for the financial fraud trial that resulted in Manafort’s conviction on eight counts. Duncan said that she would have convicted Manafort on all 18 counts, but the jury had a lone holdout.

‘I’m seeing myself more on TV than I did last year when I ran.’

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., on pressure from outside groups over the upcoming confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In the six weeks after the nomination, pro-Kavanaugh groups spent $7.5 million on ads supporting the nominee, compared with the $1.3 million liberal groups spent opposing him.

‘The most marvelous of human achievements is to not lose hope when experience has taught you hope is for fools.’

Mark Salter, former speechwriter and chief of staff to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on the death of McCain, who served five years as a POW during the Vietnam War.

‘I won’t say a word about it.’

Pope Francis on claims that he knew about the sexual misconduct of former Washington Archbishop Theodore McCarrick since 2013, but allowed him to become a cardinal anyway.

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