"The timing is unfortunate and we realize that."
— Ron Lesko, Albany City School District spokesman, on raises for several administrators at a time when the district says it's struggling financially.
"It can get ugly if the wrong choices are made, and it can get ugly in multiple directions."
— Secretary of State John Kerry, on an upcoming vote in Crimea on leaving Ukraine and joining Russia.
"I was doing good for myself until the day you decided to walk in my store and set me up."
— Donald Andrews, owner of Dabb City Smoke Shop, to James Slater, who framed Andrews but was caught and convicted of perjury.
"The world is a big place."
— Michael Smart, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia, on the difficulty of finding a missing Malaysia Airlines jet.