Top 82 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Quotes
#3. We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.
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#4. The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage.
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#5. As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.
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#6. In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.
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#7. We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.
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#8. We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.
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#9. We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.
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#10. Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.
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#11. However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.
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#12. We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize.
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#13. There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.
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#14. The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
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#15. Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.
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#17. Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.
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#18. I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.
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#19. I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.
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#20. We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.
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#21. Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.
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#22. 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.
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#23. We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.
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#24. I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.
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#25. Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.
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#26. I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
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#27. I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.
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#28. I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be.
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#29. I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'
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#30. While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.
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#31. Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.
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#32. A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.
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#35. It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.
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#36. Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.
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#37. Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
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#38. It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
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#39. In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.
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#40. We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
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#41. I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.
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#42. 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.
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#43. As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.
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#45. 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.
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#46. The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
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#47. The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.
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#48. We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
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#49. I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.
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#50. College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.
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#51. As your president, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people's wellbeing.
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#52. For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.
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#53. 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.
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#55. In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'
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#56. My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
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#57. I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.
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#58. You have 60 countries in the world with a terrorist problem. That's two-thirds of the world. We have this group in Basilan, which is a small island in the far south of the Philippines, and the island itself has a population of - what? - 300,000.
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#60. Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.
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#61. 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.
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#62. The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.
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#63. Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
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#64. By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.
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#65. Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.
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#66. I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.
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#67. I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
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#68. Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.
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#70. The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.
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#71. Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
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#72. We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.
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#73. Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
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#75. Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.
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#76. To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.
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#78. We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.
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#81. I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
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#82. In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.
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