We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

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

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

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.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

You’re calling out the wolf, darlin’.

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.