The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

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.

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.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

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

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

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