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.

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

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.

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

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

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