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The best thing to know is what you don't know.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.
All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.
Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.
'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.
I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.
I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.
I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.
I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.
It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.
There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.
I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.
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.
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 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'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
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.
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.
If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.
At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.
Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.
One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.
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.
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.
People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.
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.
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.
I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.
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.
Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
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.
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 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.
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.