Christine Quinn Quotes

My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.

I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and I think New Yorkers know that.

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'