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After my homeland of Puerto Rico, Miami has been the most important city in my life and career.
It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.
We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.
We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.
Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
I had been successful in Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, but nothing in the U.S. where it really matters.
I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.
In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.
I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.
'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!
I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.
I love being in Puerto Rico. I am so excited that they embrace me, and I feel that I am giving back to my fans.
The 3.5 million people in Puerto Rico are American citizens. They deserve fair and equal treatment as Americans.
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters.
It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
We're here to take our skills - our superpowers - and figure out how to help Puerto Rico, the Earth and the people.
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.
The majority of Puerto Ricans in Florida and New York are Democrats, but nonetheless, we have Republican governors.
A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.
You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
I love Calle 13 - they are Puerto Rican; some songs sound like Reggaeton, but it's not Reggaeton; it's good urban music.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.
I've never had a stylist. My style is very distinctive from where I am from in Puerto Rico: a housing project in Carolina.
I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me.
I've seen a lot of the great fighters, so I've always been a fan of the Puerto Rican fighters and I'm happy to be one myself.
The fight with Camacho is very attractive. It's a natural fight, and one that Mexico, Puerto Rico and the world wants to see.
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
Medalla is Puerto Rico's national treasure, as I call it. It's a Puerto Rican national beer - a great light beer for a beach day.
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
I fought Miguel Cotto in Madison Square Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade - it was like fighting the devil in Hell.
For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.
The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'
Puerto Rico's participation per capita in the armed forces is more than most states, yet they can't vote for their commander in chief.
In the '90s, I think that Bill Clinton would have won in Puerto Rico. I think in the 2000s, George Bush would have won in Puerto Rico.
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
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.