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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.”
“Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.”
“In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.”
“We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.”
“It's never right to fight terror with terror.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.”
“We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.”
“I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.”
“A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.”
“Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.”
“Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.”
“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.”
“The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.”