What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Equality Copy Share Image
There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Goals Copy Share Image
Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Feminism Copy Share Image
When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Energy Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Being Copy Share Image
Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Discrimination Copy Share Image
You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place.… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Fight Copy Share Image
When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that people understand that we know the difference between President Trump and the good-hearted people and the… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Democracy Copy Share Image
My job is to make life better for people, and you cannot make life better if you are in a helicopter. You… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those… — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
