I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

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.

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.

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.

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

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.