Don’t keep your own schedule – that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time. – Christine Quinn
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you’re involved in, the harder that becomes. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
I’m going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it’s a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development. – Christine Quinn
I’m not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I’m about getting things done. – Christine Quinn
There will be a moment in life, whether you’re forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable. – Christine Quinn
Being an activist is about getting things done. It’s not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you’re hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
I think it’s really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
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. – Christine Quinn
I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk. – Christine Quinn
