19 Quotes by Carmen Yulin Cruz

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.

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.

What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

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.

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.