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" 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. "

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" When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult. "

Christine Quinn

Woman

You

Win

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Christine Quinn

Going

Back

" 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. "

Christine Quinn

Hope

Life

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. "

" 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. "

" I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Christine Quinn

Think

Hope

" My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun. "

Christine Quinn

School

Special

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

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

Christine Quinn

Believe

Hiding

" 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. "