"Many may understandably fear that there is no vote that is not for sale, no office without a price, and no official clean of corruption."
— U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, on the Malcolm Smith scandal
"It's a sad commentary that Governor Cuomo cares more about making a political point than he does about the well-being of these workers and their families."
— CSEA president Danny Donohue,
on layoffs at the Thruway Authority
and the state Canal Corp.
"No one cares about what you know. ... All they care about is what you can do with what you know."
— Thomas Friedman, at Temple Israel in Albany
"I've always envied this job and wanted this job."
— Jimmy Patsos, the new Siena College basketball coach
"Seventy acres of pornography is too much."
Troy Councilman Rodney Wiltshire,
opposing an adult entertainment zone