Statesman

Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

It's never right to fight terror with terror.

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

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

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.