People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now. — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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
What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people. — 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 who occupy… — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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
You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like… — 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 of 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 with open… — 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 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 good-natured people… — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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 the hungry,… — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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 nice. — 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 a good… — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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 take it,… — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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 make him… — 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 Copy Share Image
