If President Trump were to say, ‘I’m going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,’ I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
When you’re drinking from a creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s not a good news story. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
People don’t realize they have the power. People don’t realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I’m in right now. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can’t play nice. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
You don’t fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That’s like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
My job is to make life better for people, and you cannot make life better if you are in a helicopter. You can’t make life better for them if you can’t touch them. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives. Carmen Yulin Cruz Read Quote
