Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

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.

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.

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