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It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
Dick Thornburgh
National
Sense
Seek
Identity
Without
Understandable
Cultural
National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Quite
Politically
Separating
Puerto
Preserve
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.
Dick Thornburgh
Truth
Fear
Resolved
Those
Status
See
Seek
About
Instead
Optimism
Option
Want
Upside
Should
Rico
Who
Each
Including
Downside
Why
Puerto
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
Dick Thornburgh
People
First
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
Rule
States
System
Federal
Self-Determination
House
House Of Representatives
Provide
Years
Representatives
Moved
After
Rican
Meaningful
United
United States
Route
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.
Dick Thornburgh
Political
Rest
Nation
National
State
Though
System
Has-Been
Borders
Economic
Within
Island
Territory
Arrest
Been
Integration
National Borders
Political System
Convergence
Century
Customs
Rico
Even
Puerto
I'm proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the time - they say, 'What are you'? - I say I'm Irish. I'm Puerto Rican. I guess I was born to fight.
Eddie Alvarez
Time
You
Fight
Fighting
Guess
Everyone
Sides
Say
Tell
Born
Both
Both Sides
Well
Well Known
Known
Proud
Irish
Rican
Really
They Say
Puerto
Puerto Rican
I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.
Eddie Alvarez
Best
Me
World
Fighting
Define
Some
Got
Proud
Am
Irish
Person
Fighters
Who
Puerto
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
Eddie Huang
Live
Side
Neighbors
East
East Side
Maintain
Identity
American
Manhattan
Chinese
Lower
Choose
Puerto
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
Eduardo Bhatia
Constitution
Rights
Unbelievable
Federal
Court
Itself
Ignores
Rico
Puerto
Apply
Puerto Rico
Guaranteed
We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
Eduardo Bhatia
Rain
Water
Think
Dams
Insane
Plenty
Only
Over
Forest
Rico
Works
Puerto
Here
Puerto Rico
I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.
Eduardo Bhatia
Problem
Will
Control
Never
Over
Accept
Advise
Affairs
Discussion
Which
Board
Rico
Puerto
In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.
Eduardo Bhatia
Culture
Back
Out
Developed
Taking
Ended
Them
Paying
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rico
Loans
Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
Fat Joe
Powerful
Island
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rico
There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
Fat Joe
Else
Everywhere
Citizens
Like
Go
Quick
Expect
America
American
Same
Just
Rico
Help
Million
Puerto
Puerto Rico
I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.
Frank McCourt
Superior
Hierarchy
Jobs
Above
Felt
Just
Rican
Them
Lowest
Puerto
Puerto Rican
I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.
Geraldo Rivera
Work
Time
Better
Mother
Father
Suited
Our
Spend
Would
Fabulous
New
Make
Hip
York
New York
Mayor
Again
Rican
Land
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Jewish
I've actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me.
Grey Damon
Me
Once
Some
Had
Been
Rican
Asked
Twice
Actually
Puerto
Puerto Rican
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
Ian Gomez
Mom
Family
Kind
Russian
Weird
Catholic
Mix
Rico
Dad
Puerto
Puerto Rico
Jewish
I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.
J Balvin
Myself
Game
Drake
Lyrics
Melodies
See
Like
Came
Canada
Did
Different
Place
Different Place
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rico
From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape the fact that climate change is not happening in some far-off, distant future.
Jay Inslee
Future
Change
Distant
Hurricanes
Some
Fact
Fires
Longer
California
Iowa
Houston
Climate
Climate Change
Escape
Happening
Rico
Floods
Nebraska
Puerto
Puerto Rico
To look back and reflect on the career and sort of look at the seasons of it before I got to the WWF, working the territories and Japan and Texas, Puerto Rico, and then the WWF and WCW, then obviously the TNA years - it's been quite a journey, I'll say that.
Jeff Jarrett
Journey
Before
Reflect
Back
Say
Look
Obviously
Sort
Territories
WWF
Got
Been
Years
Texas
Quite
Japan
Then
Working
Rico
Seasons
Puerto
Puerto Rico
Career
Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Love
Beautiful
Day
You
Action
All Day
Running
Outside
Around
Where
Movie
Mean
Hard
Rico
Action Movie
Film
Puerto
Here
Puerto Rico
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
Jennifer Esposito
You
Mother
Father
Lesson
Those
Neither
About
Give
How
Geography
Mexico
Salvador
Want
El Salvador
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rico
I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.
Jimmy Smits
Time
Me
You
School
Looking
Looking Back
Back
Everything
Way
Say
Bit
Kids
Out
Only
Through
Yankee
Making
Am
Were
Lot
Very
Going
Oh
Little
Little Bit
Jarring
Acted
Rico
Therapy
Fun
Traumatic
Puerto
Puerto Rico
I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.
Joan Smalls
You
Beans
Take
Never
Never Take
Diet
Rican
Rice
Pork
Away
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.
Joe Garcia
Day
Broken
Rest
Group
Other
Once
Exception
Through
Day One
Cuban
Go
Hispanics
America
Trying
American
Being
Process
Bar
Dysfunctional
Puerto
I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.
Josh Segarra
Time
Danced
House
Because
Up
Where
Grew
Rican
Puerto
Puerto Rican
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