i'm very pleased to have christine quinn back at this table. weome. >> thank you. >> charlie: before we lk about open politics here, just tell me about this for you and your partner of 12 years. >> 10. >> charlie: 10 years. >> right. >> charlie: what does this mean. tell me the feeling what you too had when you realized you could get married in this state. >> we didn't really realize it until friday night and i was in my office in city hall working on the budget. we were on the phone and when we heard the senator, i was watching it on tv, at that moment, we realized it. and kim was we don't know, it can change. but we knew it. and it's a hard feeling to describe although a lot won't change. we lived together for nine years. a whole lot will change and you felt that. this was this amazing feeling of being a fuller part of your state. and really that stigma that being leftutf this enormous important institution was gone. and it was just amazing. you felt really kind of lifted up in a way and freed in a way. >> charlie: a step forwards. >> yes. yo

christine quinn is the speaker of the new york city council and for years has advocate forward this.ith her in her home to discuss it. madam speaker, congratulations. why the difference? two years ago you talked about the fear of the unknown. you came up a few votes short. what happened? what made the difference? >> i think what made the difference is nobody lost focus or hope or faith after 2009. and we analyzed what went wrong. we organized a new campaign. we were more focused. we didn't repeat our mistakes, and we had the tremendous benefit this time of an incredibly popular governor, governor cuomo, who made this one of the top three priorities of his first year. and all of that focus, hard work and support of the governor came together in a really remarkable way. >> and so as we ask now what comes next, how might this affect the national debate about same-sex marriage. i want to focus on that point you just made because in the reaction to the new york legislature passing this law, governor cuomo signing this law, we saw people marching in the streets saying hathank you, governor