I feel very proud and honored, and I feel like it's a wonderful thing, and I feel a little overwhelmed by the responsibility my colleagues are going to give me, and I feel like I want to work very, very hard to make all of my colleagues on the City Council proud, and I hope that I'll be able to live up to the trust that they put in my hands.

I think it's a big deal symbolically because it's New York kind of going as far as we can in relationship law, ... It's also a big deal because it's New York City trying to make relations as equal as we possibly can.

Let me say that I am incredibly proud that in the most diverse city in the world, diversity is seen as a strength, and not an impediment.

We voted to make it so that people who are registered domestic partners, members of civil unions or gay marriages from other jurisdictions, will now be recognized as registered New York city domestic partners,