"We'll take for granted that Spitzer has given up on prostitution. The question for voters will be: Has he grown up in other ways as well?"
— New York Daily News
"He should just keep his socks on, put his shoes on and walk away."
— former Albany County Executive Jim Coyne,
on Eliot Spitzer's return to politics
"Where does it stop? We let him live at our expense, for the rest of his life? I'm sorry. He deserves the death penalty."
— MIT police chief John DiFava,
at the arraignment of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev