A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

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.

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

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

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.