"I'm basically the healthiest fat guy you've ever seen in your life."
— Gov. Chris Christie
of New Jersey, talking
to David Letterman
about his weight
"Hitler would be proud. Mussolini would be proud of what we did here. Moscow would be proud, but that's not democracy."
— Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin,
on the state's new gun law
"I don't think the justice system is capable of dealing with financial crimes of this type."
— Attorney E. Stewart Jones, protesting the convictions of former Albany brokers Timothy McGinn and David Smith
"We call it weather porn."
— Meterologist Don -McCasland of Milton, Mass., on the anticipation of huge snowstorms