98 Quotes by Christine Quinn

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

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.

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

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 think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

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.

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.

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.

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.