Overwhelming Quote by Oscar Lopez Rivera

Exercising dominion over Puerto Rico, as the U.S. has done for more than a century - without granting Puerto Ricans the full franchise in…

— Ritchie Torres

Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match. That is,…

— Marco Rubio

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] losing not just taxpayers, but professionals, people who are vital to their communities. I don't think that is good. So undoubtedly, if…

— Marco Rubio

The one key difference is that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory. We don't have representation. We have a difficult time getting funding from…

— Ricky Rossello

Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which…

— Anibal Acevedo Vila

The majority of the people of Puerto Rico support commonwealth.

— Anibal Acevedo Vila

Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the…

— Dick Thornburgh

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

— Fat Joe

Puerto Rico lacks resources, but that's not the fault of the U.S.

— Francisco Rodriguez