Top 11 Luis A. Ferré Quotes

Reason does not scream. Reason convinces.

La razón no grita, la razón convence.

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.

We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be a colony, we don't want to be inferior. We want to be equal.

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

The most important things in my life have been being governor of Puerto Rico and eliminating the old tradition that was established by [former Gov. Luis] Muñoz himself of being a boss. He was the boss of the government and there was no opposition in Puerto Rico. That was the thing I broke to make Puerto Rico a two-party system, a truly democratic society.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

The scholars and critics all called it kitsch, everyone thought I was crazy to buy them.

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.