Long Quote by Ritchie Torres Download Open image “A comprehensive decolonization of Puerto Rico is long overdue.” — Ritchie Torres ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Overdue Puerto Puerto rico Rico
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know that, with clear leadership, with a clear path forward, understanding that the times are tough and that there are great challenges, if… — Ricky Rossello Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They [ the government of Puerto Rico] are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I'm not going to impose my vision on the people of Puerto Rico. — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe - and so do most Puerto Ricans - that the ideas that will prevail in the new century will be those similar… — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
My younger self could not imagine standing on the floor of Congress as a member of Congress voting on legislation that, if enacted, would… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I am both black and Latino - there's no need to artificially barricade one from the other. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I lived in public housing and had to struggle with depression and substance abuse. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
With a multi-billion dollar market capitalization, crypto is here to stay. It's not going anywhere. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the blessing and burden of public service; I promised my constituents that I would work my heart out for them. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I take an expansive view of infrastructure. For me, infrastructure is more than roads and bridges. It's about the quality of the water we… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
New York City should and must embrace crypto if it is to remain the financial capital of the world. We no longer live in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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