"When you opened them up, it looked like someone was killed on the mattress. They were disgusting."
—Albany County Executive Dan McCoy on what investigators found when they looked into a publicly funded furniture program for welfare recipients.
"We just want peple to be as respectful as they can, to customers and to others, while selling ice cream."
—Gloversville Mayor Dayton King, on the issue of relicensing two ice cream vendors whose competitive spats sparked legal action and drew national attention last year.
"Being a jerk, maybe saying something stupid, is not against the law...I don't know that being an irate taxpayer is being a terrorist."
— Fred Santiago, attorney for Jorge DeHoyos, who was acquitted of making a terroristic threat to the state Department of Taxation and Finance last year when, angry about an audit, he threatened to "bomb you just like they did in the (Boston) marathon."