Puerto rico Quote by Nelson A. Denis

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination…

— Dick Thornburgh

As Puerto Ricans, we don't do enough. I keep saying in the history books, when you are teaching history, there should be a chapter…

— Alex Cora

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…

— Dick Thornburgh

We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a…

— Anonymous

The 3.5 million people in Puerto Rico are American citizens. They deserve fair and equal treatment as Americans.

— Tom Perez

We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.

— Ricardo 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

“Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to…

— Michel Foucault

People who have come to the USA legally, who stood in line, who played by the rules, in the Latino and the Hispanic community,…

— Mike Pence

“Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law,”

— Cindy Brandner