FACTBOX - Quotes on N.Y. Gov. Spitzer prostitute report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Following are comments on reports that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer hired a $1,000-an-hour (499.3 pounds) prostitute in a scandal that threatens to force his resignation.

A New York Times report said the man who made his name fighting corruption hired a $1,000-an-hour prostitute and was caught on a federal wiretap at least six times on February 12 and 13 arranging to meet with her at a Washington hotel.

SPITZER, then attorney general, speaking to ABC News two years ago, gave advice to people who break the law:

"Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need."

THE NEW YORK TIMES, in an editorial:

"New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer could not have been more wrong in his brief public appearance after the world learned that he was suspected of patronizing a prostitution ring. ... His short, arrogant statement simply was not enough, not from the Sheriff of Wall Street, not from the self-appointed Mr. Clean who went to Albany promising a new and better day."

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, in an editorial:

"One might call it Shakespearian if there were a shred of nobleness in the story of Eliot Spitzer's fall. There is none. Governor Spitzer, who made his career by specializing in not just the prosecution, but the ruin, of other men, is himself almost certainly ruined."

DINA MCGREEVEY, estranged wife of former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey who resigned in 2004 over a gay affair with a man whom he hired, said she had expected Spitzer to resign immediately: "By not doing so he's only prolonging the pain and anguish and humiliation."