I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

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

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

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.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

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

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.