Accepted Quote by Willard Scott

“statehood was crucial to future national existence.”

— Timothy Snyder

I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.

— Ricardo Rossello

“For a great state, qua state, is not one which embraces a great population or an extensive territory, but one which achieves a great…

— Michael Oakeshott

I'd want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of America.

— Ricky Rossello

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

— Anson Williams

Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers like that,…

— Heather Cox Richardson

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

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

— William Whipple

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

— Robert Charles Winthrop

I am proud to be an American, proud to represent 600,000 Americans, and proud to be in the only party pledged to make the…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

— Dennis Prager

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

— John Anderson