Carmen Yulin Cruz

Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice. ”

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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