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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. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Value
Fight
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" 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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" I'm not worried. I'm in control. "
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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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" 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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" It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that. "
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" 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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" 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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" The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. "
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" 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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" The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism. "
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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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She
I Can
Stand
" 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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Respect
Honesty
Service
" The people want government that works for them at every level. "
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Government
Level
" 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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Constitution
Faithful
People
" 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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" 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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Ask
Your
You
" 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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Will
Injustice
Justice
" 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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People
Work
Country
" 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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" 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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Think
" In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular. "
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Right
Popular
" Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy. "
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Filipino
Economy
" 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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" 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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Future
Responsibility
" I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. "
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Democracy
Successor
Sow
" 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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Stand
Way
Ambition
" It's never right to fight terror with terror. "
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Right
Terror
Never
" In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field. "
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" 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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" 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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