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.

The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

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.

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.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.