"Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right..." — Christine Quinn

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 come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

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

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.