"I didn't enjoy killing anybody. ... I always tried to be a nice guy.''
— Convicted hit man
John Martorano,
testifying at the trial of
Whitey Bulger in Boston
"There are plenty of people who can do this job.
... I don't shoot from the hip. I shoot from the brain."
— Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin,
on possibly running for governor
"He was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that."
— "Sopranos" creator
David Chase, on the late James Gandolfini
"I have come to destroy extremism."
— Hassan Rouhani,
president-elect of Iran