There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.