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

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

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

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

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

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. 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.