Christine Quinn Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.'”

“I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.”

“There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.”

“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.”

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

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

“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'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.”

“I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.”