I'm convinced I will be cleared of all these charges that were unfairly leveled against me.

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

The truth will come out in the end.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.