Borders Quote by Dick Thornburgh

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

— Pedro Pierluisi

The real problem with Puerto Rico is that it keeps losing its best and brightest. It keeps losing its leaders and its future leaders…

— Brock Pierce

Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

— Fat Joe

Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.

— Ricky Rossello

Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be…

— Rosie Perez

Actually, I am asking for this: for something to be done. I think that if it had been one of the 50 states, something…

— Marco Rubio

Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like,…

— Nelson Antonio Denis

A comprehensive decolonization of Puerto Rico is long overdue.

— Ritchie Torres

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The tropical island of Puerto Rico couldn't be more different than America's rust belt or the mountains of Appalachia, but here too live Americans…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and…

— Pedro Pierluisi

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

— Sonia Sotomayor