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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.
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.
I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.