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.

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

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.

In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.

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

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.