Statehood is a responsible ballot option because there are no variations on its definition.

We cannot know the partisan makeup of a congressional delegation for the state of Puerto Rico until the U.S. citizens there are afforded full voting rights.

Where are the jobs? Where is the economic opportunity? Where is the possibility for the people of Puerto Rico?

the solution emanates without a fair distribution of power between the people of Puerto Rico and the Congress of the United States.

We should also go down there to fill our minds with their ideas, their aspirations, and their dreams.

to suggest that the people of Puerto Rico simply feel that this Congress is putting all of the burden.

The Congress of the United States retains plenary powers over everything in Puerto Rico, not just the status of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States of America. Puerto Rico is war booty from the war in 1898.

The most logical and democratic way for Congress to know where we stand as Americans is to allow us an up-or-down vote to confirm or overturn the 2012 results.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pleasure to see you and so many other friends.

The current economic crisis is a cruel manifestation that territorial status is not a sustainable model for the political economy of America's last large and populous territory.