At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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