Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Once a champion, always a champion.

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Once a thing is removed from your heart, a trace of it still remains.

You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.

She wanted to be the rain, to cover him with moisture, to bring life to his seed.

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

It seems that everything is part of the maturing process