''If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?''
— Pope Francis, on gay priests
"We laugh, because if we didn't laugh, we would cry, right?"
— Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
on Anthony Weiner
"Tell the governor I said goodbye."
— Joe O'Connor, on his retirement as a longtime clerk at the state Capitol
"Many are earning so little they have little to lose."
— Dorian Warren of Columbia University, on a one-day strike by fast-food workers