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.

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. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

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.

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.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.