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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.

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

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

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

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

My worry is how to protect the Filipino.

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.