Stacey Plaskett actually said...

"It is the central principle of our American democracy that Americans through their votes can have a say in their government."

"More than 3.5 million U.S. citizens are denied constitutional rights simply because they reside in one of the five U.S. territories."

"At the core of the disenfranchisement of territorial residents are the racially charged series of Supreme Court decisions in the early 1900s, the Insular Cases."

"What we are doing is to urge protection first and foremost for the self-determination and rights of sovereign-owned peoples."