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

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

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 Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.

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

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