“Can you suck my tongue?” (The Dalai Lama speaking to a young boy at an event in the northern Indian city of Dharamsala)
“Don’t let anyone tell me that the Argentinians are better than us.” (There is only one Rudi Völler)
“Oh, that’s typical Berlin again.” (Markus Söder, capital expert, about the firecracker chaos at the turn of the year there)
“I don’t have enough left in the tank.” (New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern resigns)
“If you ask again you’ll get a spanking.” (Fredi Bobic defends freedom of expression as Hertha manager)
“It’s nothing other than the Jewish star (…) If you say the wrong word, you’re a Nazi.” (Boris Palmer, ex-Green Party)
“I think it’s completely crazy to somehow stick yourself to a picture or on the street.” (Olaf Scholz on climate demonstrators of the “last generation”)
“The following program, as part of television history, is shown in its original form. It contains passages that are now considered discriminatory.” (ARD warning about old episodes of “The Otto Show”, “Schmidteinander” and “The Heinz Becker Family”)
“78 years ago today, the Red Army Faction liberated the survivors of the German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.” (Moderator Franca Lehfeldt gets a bit confused on the TV channel “Welt” on Holocaust Remembrance Day)
“They sit at the doctor and have their teeth done, and the German citizens next door don’t get any appointments.”(Friedrich Merz, AfD, er, CDU chairman, about asylum seekers)
“Did not like it.” (Spanish soccer world champion Jennifer Hermoso on the kiss on the mouth of association boss Luis Rubiales)
“I don’t think you should exaggerate. When you become world champion, you are emotional. And what he did there was – sorry, with all due respect – absolutely okay.” (Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, feminist, about Rubiales’ kiss)
“Here in Ireland the cream tastes better.” (Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary responds casually to a climate activist’s cake attack at a press conference in Brussels)
“Hihi… oh, man… like that, but now.” (Susanne Daubner gets a flash of laughter during the “Tagesschau” in the “Morgenmagazin”)
