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

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

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.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.