Pedro Pierluisi actually said...

H.R. 727 is forceful and ambitious, because the days of half-steps and half-measures on this issue are over.

Pierluisi emphasizes the need for decisive action on Puerto Rico's statehood.

06/23/2015

More Pedro Pierluisi Quotes

That is why a 54 percent majority voted to end the current status in the plebiscite of 2012.

The current economic crisis is a cruel manifestation that territorial status is not a sustainable model for the political economy of America...

This Congress must address the issue and consider enacting a bill to provide for the admission of Puerto Rico as a state.

We are, as a matter of fact, the world's last colony with more than 1 million (1,000,000) inhabitants.