"I am proud to report that my administration has enacted and implemented more laws and reforms than any other administration in Puerto Rico's history."
"if the goal--and I think the goal from at least the majority of this side of the aisle is to see Puerto Rico eventually have statehood sooner rather than later, the ability of working together to solv..."
"Three years ago, this Committee was assigned to come up with a process, in some particular way, to solve the looming disaster that was facing financial disaster in Puerto Rico."
"Austerity alone does not work and will only lead to further economic contraction."
"All of us--the Oversight Board, Congress and the Administration--owe it to the Puerto Rican people to help them find solutions to the problems they are facing."
"I was absolutely appalled, being the guy that opened the World War II Memorial, when barricades had been rented or purchased and put up in an open air memorial to do nothing but harass the Nation's ve..."
"I don't want a 1-hour plane ride, I want to walk around the block to him."
"Look, I don't want to actually defend any bureaucracy in Washington, especially because the Department of the Interior, let's face it, if you were actually a business, you would have been bankrupt yea..."
"I hope we can solve it, which is also one of the reasons I hope Mr. Grijalva will simply schedule a hearing for a backlog bill"
"Right now it is disruptive, expensive, and frustrating, and much of the success--certain reorganizations, I think, have been inflated sometimes."
"It is not a stellar performance by Congress by any means, but thank you all."