I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

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

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

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.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

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

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