I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.