Quotables

“What does Mike Johnson think about any issue? … Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.”

Newly installed Speaker of the House MIKE JOHNSON, R-La., in an Oct. 26 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“They enter [the bus] and ask each of us whether we’re Muslim or Jewish. … I answer that I’m Muslim. … Luckily, they believe me.”

Israeli traveler SHMUEL, describing to an Israeli newspaper how an angry crowd chanting anti-Semitic slogans mobbed the airport he was traveling through in Makhachkala in Russia’s Dagestan region on Oct. 29, searching for Jewish travelers.

“I told him maybe we should start using it as a recruitment tool.”

JENNIFER HEINS DAVIS, chief of staff for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, joking to the longtime lawmaker about the 20 couples over the years who met while working for his office and later married, according to The Wall Street Journal. Davis tied the knot with a former Grassley legislative aide in October.

“To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”

Pop singer BRITNEY SPEARS, 41, writing in her new memoir The Woman in Me that she had an unwanted abortion while dating Justin Timberlake from 1999 to 2002.