I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

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

I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.