"The real world is, if you're going to cut taxes the way we're talking about cutting taxes, you will have to cut services."
—Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO.
"We don't have the basics we need for kindergarten and now we're talking about expanding pre-kindergarten."
—Averill Park Superintendent James Hoffman.
"I told you so. I warned you this was going to happen."
— Pastor Willie Bacote, to the Troy City Council's Public Safety Committee, on alleged police brutality.
"They have promised zero tolerance, but what they've gotten for more than two decades is zero accountability."
— Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., on the military's handling of sexual assault cases.