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

The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

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

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

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