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We will not tolerate any cuts to care benefits.

— Tim Klüssendorf, SPD General Secretary, in a statement ahead of the cabinet meeting on the planned care reform (also distributed via Instagram video).

Now you protect the fascists!

— Cansın Köktürk, during the Bundestag debate about the AfD member René Springer’s remarks

I faced what I had been running from, and somewhere in all of it, i started finding my way back to myself.

— Presley Gerber, from an Instagram caption about facing what he had been running from and finding his way back to himself.

He as a politician is used to this, but I have done nothing but serve that American public and the world for decades.

— Barack Obama; in Fauci's diary entry describing a phone call during which Obama criticized the slander against Fauci and defended his decades of public service.

She wants a paternalistic state that, above all, knows what’s best for women and also for potential surrogates.

— Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, Leipzig-based professor; quoted in Die Zeit about the CDU/CSU's stance on surrogacy.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

— Peter Thiel; quoted in a CORRECTIV article about the Thiel network (Dialog network), citing Thiel's claim that freedom and democracy are not compatible.