Political Quotes

What is wrong is to, after 112 years, have formerly American citizens residing under conditions that are so unequal to their counterparts in the mainland.

There has been no ultimate achievement in Puerto Rico's political status.

I appear before you as Governor of Puerto Rico. As you know, I am also President of the New Progressive Party, which advocates statehood as a final solution for the island's more than a century old status issue.

Essentially, they had said that we could retain American citizenship, we would retain all of the Federal funding that we're getting today and, actually, then some more.