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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.


Dick Thornburgh


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


Dick Thornburgh


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Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.


Peter Straub


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We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty.


Jose de Diego


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I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.


David Ogilvy


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However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.


Dick Thornburgh


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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.


Dick Thornburgh


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