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" As your president, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people's wellbeing. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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" In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify. "

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

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" The contracts for Iraqi rebuilding are commercial contracts. I think being in the coalition of the willing puts us in the radar screen, but we also have to compete with other countries that are in the coalition of the willing, but the Philippines is a country that has produced world-class skilled workers that we have seen all over the world. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. "

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" 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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" 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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" We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas. "

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" We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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