I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

I am not a morning person.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Have I ever told you how scary it is that you think of heels in terms of their possible shiv potential?

This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.

No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.

Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.