Christine Quinn
Christine Quinn
Christine Callaghan Quinnis an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she formerly served as the Speaker of the New York City Council. The third person to hold this office, she is the first female and first openly gay speaker. As City Council speaker, Quinn was New York City's third most powerful public servant, behind the mayor and public advocate. She ran to succeed Michael Bloomberg as the city's mayor in the 2013 mayoral election, but she came in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 July 1966
CityGlen Cove, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
I think it's a big deal symbolically because it's New York kind of going as far as we can in relationship law, ... It's also a big deal because it's New York City trying to make relations as equal as we possibly can.
People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.
Let me say that I am incredibly proud that in the most diverse city in the world, diversity is seen as a strength, and not an impediment.
We voted to make it so that people who are registered domestic partners, members of civil unions or gay marriages from other jurisdictions, will now be recognized as registered New York city domestic partners,
There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
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.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
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.
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.
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.
You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
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.
To get things done, you have to get people together.