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To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.

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

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

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

I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.

I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.

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