Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Statesman

1947-04-05

Quotes by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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

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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 sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

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• In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• You have 60 countries in the world with a terrorist problem. That's two-thirds of the world. We have this group in Basilan, which is a small island in the far south of the Philippines, and the island itself has a population of - what? - 300,000.

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

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

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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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• 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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• We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

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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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• 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.

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