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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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" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

History

Relationship

Freedom

" It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that. "

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Change

Very

Bad

" 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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Education

Change

Job

" 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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Job

Day

Beauty

" 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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Terrorism

Pain

Fighting

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Politics

Decisions

Decision

" 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

Lost

Value

Fight

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Rebuilding

World

Country

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Children

Education

Life

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Good

Character

Fight

" As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Life

Progress

Wise

" 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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Deep

Nation

Men

" A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Any

Ready

Job

" On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Partner

Important

Community

" 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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Important

Together

Progress

" 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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Change

I Am

Political

" 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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Come

President

Anniversary

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Generation

Feet

Political

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Zero

Done

Ground

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Terrorism

Security

Rights

" 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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Government

People

Generation

" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Government

Just

Opportunity

" I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Say

Any

Constitution

" I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Home

Create

Want

" In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Need

Competitive

Transparency

" 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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Out

Rich

Tourism

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

World

Together

Peaceful

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Two

Philippines

United

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Much

Will

Own

" We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Ethics

Work

Rhetoric