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

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

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.

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'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.

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.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.