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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.