“I’m encouraged by Gov. Cuomo. I think he’s serious, and I think the Legislature is up against an adversary who’s a lot smarter and more committed than they’ve been up against for a long time in New York. He’s been around, he’s seen how this works, he’s watched his father work for all those years. I think he comes to the job pretty well-prepared.”

— New Jersey’s Republican governor, Chris Christie, on his Democratic counterpart in Albany, in an interview with National Review Online