Carmen Yulin Cruz

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”