I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

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.

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

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

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.