Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

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.

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Every effort must be made to increase forfeiture income.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

I have to fix this,” I told him, as clearly and calmly as I could. “If you want to help me, then help me. Don’t shield me, don’t protect me, don’t bury me alive. Help me .