Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

One must be frank to be relevant.

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.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

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

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.