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

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

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

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 a tendency toward being a micromanager.

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

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.