#residents

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#authorized #congress #constitution #federal #federal law

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

#act #aspirations #congress #does #empowered

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions. ↗

— John Thorn

#appeals #because #different #fans #game

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#goes #presidents #press #rail #turf

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#get #give #i #i think #like

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#burden #coast #devastating #disproportionate #gulf

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#direction #had #influence #justices #lasting

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conversations #decision #done #historical #i

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#being #important #out #place #politics

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#administration #back #been #bush #bush administration