Filipino Politics Quotes

#1. A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson's biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It's first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

F. Sionil Jose

#2. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Orson Scott Card

#3. We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Neil Cavuto

#4. He passes beyond me and stops by the new girl. "Here," he says. His voice is gentle, the voice of the old Alex, the Alex of my memories. "I brought you some water. Don't worry. It's clean.

Lauren Oliver

#5. To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#6. We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.

Rodrigo Duterte

#7. There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

Rachel Sklar