Quotables

“It was a matter of choosing to be stabbed, shot, poisoned, or led to the guillotine. We chose to be stabbed, so we can live to fight another day.”

Wisconsin state Sen. VAN WANGGAARD, explaining why he and fellow Republicans voted for a redistricting map that favored Democrats. He said the map, which Gov. Tony Evers signed into law Feb. 19, was the best of four options the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to consider.

“You all knew I was going to shoot a logo-3 for the record. C’mon now.”

University of Iowa basketball guard CAITLIN CLARK, who set an NCAA women’s scoring record—3,528 points—on Feb. 15 by sinking a 3-pointer from near the midcourt Hawkeyes logo in a game against Michigan.

“That traitor and criminal was a moral corpse.”

SERGEY NARYSHKIN, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, on Russian military helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to Ukraine in August. Kuzminov was discovered shot to death in Spain in mid-February.

“I know she’s a program. … But the feelings, they get you—and it felt so good.”

Belleville, Mich., resident DEREK CARRIER, 39, who said he developed a romantic attachment to an AI chatbot named “Joi.”