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Carmen Yulin Cruz Quotes
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.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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Done
Hell
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Over
Polite
Politically
Politically Correct
Press
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World
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Energy
Lives
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Saving
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I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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Politics
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I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
American
Back
Come
Felt
Friends
Had
Live
Often
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Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Rican
Rico
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I want to make sure that people understand that we know the difference between President Trump and the good-hearted people and the good-natured people of the United States. We know they're not one and the same.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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President
President Trump
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Trump
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United States
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I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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Mayor
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Too
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Wanted
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If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Arms
Because
Democracy
Go
Going
Him
Juan
Larger
Mayor
Me
Nasty
Open
Open Arms
President
President Trump
Receive
San
Say
See
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Trump
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Would
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My job is to make life better for people, and you cannot make life better if you are in a helicopter. You can't make life better for them if you can't touch them.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Better
Cannot
Helicopter
Job
Life
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Them
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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.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Come
More
Now
Occupy
People
Power
Realize
Right
Seat
Than
Them
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Together
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Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Females
Game
Nice
Play
Politics
Rough
Sometimes
Taught
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Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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Happen
Lives
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Make
Order
Political
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Shake
Sometimes
Take
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Things Happen
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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Everything
Human
Motive
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Political
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What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Back
Nasty
People
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Really
Rican
Showing
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When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Away
Chairs
Erase
Job
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Too
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When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Bothered
Claiming
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Drinking
Drinking Water
Explained
Food
Hungry
Interview
Lack
Medicine
Person
Problems
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Someone
Too
Water
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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.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
Baby
Creek
Drinking
Food
Good
Good News
News
News Story
Story
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While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
American
American People
Big
Big Heart
Big Mouth
Had
He
Heart
Insult
Mouth
People
President
President Trump
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Puerto Rico
Rico
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Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not make him a respectful person.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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Does
Him
Job
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May
Most
Most Powerful
Mr
Person
Powerful
Racism
Respectful
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World
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You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner.
~ Carmen Yulin Cruz
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Asking
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Committed
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First Place
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Injustice
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BirthDate
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