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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.