"It was like a sci-fi movie ... Tourists were running out of the park screaming."

North Beach resident John Murnin, complaining about rats in Washington Square Park blamed on subway work

"You don't know anything about anything. If this is the new GM leadership, it's pretty lacking."

Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, upbraiding the carmaker CEO Mary Barra at a hearing over a defect cover-up

"I'm a different Yee."

Betty Yee, a candidate for state controller, saying she's no relation to embattled state Sen. Leland Yee, who faces gun and bribery charges