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Political Quotes by Dick Thornburgh
- In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of…
- The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure…
- If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their…
- Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some…
- Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island…
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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