Top 33 Christine Quinn Quotes

‘No one sits Baby in a corner,’ one of the best lines in movie history.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company’s president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

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

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn’t win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

When I end up yelling, it’s not really deliberate. It’s usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.

Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn’t going to win: ‘You’re a woman, you’re too liberal, you’re gay, you’re from the West Side of Manhattan,’ which in that context was an insult.

Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it’s not always attractive. It’s not always the right thing to do.

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

I think ‘having it all’ is a phrase I don’t particularly like. You need to have what you want. ‘All’ seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what ‘all’ is supposed to be.

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.

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking ‘no’ for an answer when ‘no’ means New Yorkers aren’t going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

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

I’m a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, ‘You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.’

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor’s race that is focused on them.

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 think it’s really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

I’m tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who’s going to do the same.

Bike lanes – I put that now in the category of things you shouldn’t discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

For better or worse, when you’re running for mayor, there’s a little bit of a spotlight on you.

If you don’t like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I’m nice.

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

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate – me – who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I’m the only one – I don’t care who gets in – who has that record.

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

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 big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward – and I think New Yorkers know that.

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

To get things done, you have to get people together.

I’ve already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it’s being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you’re acting, and if you are thinking about how you’re acting, then you are preoccupied and you’re going to end up being insincere. You’re kind of not present.

My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.

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