In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

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

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

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.

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

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 believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.