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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. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Pain
Fight
First
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust. "
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" 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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" 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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Stand
People
Too Much
" 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 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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I Can
Stand
" 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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Feet
Political
" Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs. "
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Jobs
Grow
" 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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Rights
" 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
" 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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She
Problem
" 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. "
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Partner
Important
Community
" 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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Your
You
" 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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Value
Fight
" 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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People
" 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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Way
" 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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Path
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" 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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Ambition
" I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution. "
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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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Gift
Like
" 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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Home
Create
Want
" Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy. "
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Compete
Filipino
Economy
" In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings. "
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Terms
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" 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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Tourism
" 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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" 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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