Boycott

The majority of MPs have today repeatedly said that it is in the past now, that it must be overcome, and that we must look forward.

— Sven Schulze – CDU parliamentary group leader, after today's CDU state parliamentary group meeting in Magdeburg

Access changes are nothing new. What is new, however, is the sudden claim that it becomes sacred only when the outlets are friendly to the Radical Left. The rule was never 'every outlet gets in.' It was always 'our side stays in.'

— White House spokesperson statement responding to media access and pool coverage restrictions

They’re going to boycott me, but they never boycott me, so I wasn’t very worried about that. Look at all that press.

— Donald J. Trump; said to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a crowd of reporters after the White House press pool boycott; described by The New York Times.

There are a few times where you get a chance in life to stand up for something bigger, and I strongly believe that this is one of them.

— Gavin Bazunu, in an Instagram statement explaining his decision not to participate in Ireland's Nations League fixtures against Israel

"To say I was shocked is to put it mildly," he penned. "But my shock wasn't about the fact they had replaced me. My shock was about the way they did it."— Sir Tom Jones, from his 2016 memoir Over the Top and Back, describing his reaction to being replaced on The Voice UK.

appalling and ongoing loss of lives in Gaza.

— RTÉ said it will not send an act to the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria and will not broadcast the show because of the appalling and ongoing loss of lives in Gaza.

What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.

— Ed Sheeran said in Philadelphia

Money doesn’t give you the right to own the conversation. Nobody’s bank balance should decide who gets to speak or which suffering we’re allowed to acknowledge.

— Lukas Forchhammer, lead singer of Lukas Graham, in a social media post.