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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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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

" In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Working Together

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" It's never right to fight terror with terror. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" The people want government that works for them at every level. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" 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

" 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