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The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.

I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.

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

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.