"In all my life, I have never seen a finer group of extremists in one room. While we are here, before we are asked to leave the state, let's make the best of it."
— Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, speaking to Republicans at the Fort Orange Club, on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's comment that extreme conservatives "have no place" in the state.
"I thought I was going to die. I could see the headline: 'Nun's body found washed up in Schenectady' or something."
—Sister Anna Tantsits, who watched flooding from second floor of a Middleburgh home.
"You look at this agenda and what we want to do — it's historic." —Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on his proposed budget. "We cannot talk about $2 billion in tax cuts in this state while we're knocking out the knees from under education."
—Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D-Albany, on Cuomo's budget
"Graft and greed are intolerable in Albany, and we will go to trial as often as we have to until government in New York is cleaned up."
—U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on the bribery conviction of Assemblyman Eric Stevens, D-Bronx.
"We're strapped. The comptroller knows it, the state knows it and now the whole world knows it, but no one will help us do anything about it."
—Watervliet schools Superintendent Lori Caplan, on findings that her district is the most financially stressed in the state.