American - Politician | July 25, 1966 -
You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.
Christine Quinn
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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
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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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Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
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To get things done, you have to get people together.
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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.
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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
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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.
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Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.
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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 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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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.
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