Christine Quinn Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.
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To get things done, you have to get people together.
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All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.
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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.
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I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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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.
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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.
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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
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The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
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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.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
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I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.