Christine Quinn Quotes

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Christine Quinn

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 25, 1966

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

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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.

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At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

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

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I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

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There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.'

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

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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.

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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.

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I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

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

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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.

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