Words matter. These are the best Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there’s a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.
There isn’t a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.
In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.
I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.
We’ve supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we’re supporting the U.S.
I follow my father’s philosphy; ‘Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.’
I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don’t want just one or the other. I want both.
Chronic deficits drastically reduce government’s ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.
In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
While there’s been much progress on terrorism, there’s still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.
I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.
A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.
Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I’m glad of it.
We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.
To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation’s accolade.
However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.
My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
I stand in the way of no one’s ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people’s well being and the nation’s progress.
It’s never right to fight terror with terror.
We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.
I’m not worried. I’m in control.
In all the things I’ve gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.
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.
The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
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.
The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we’ve been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.
The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.
Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.
In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with – about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing.
I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.
I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution.
I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that’s why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.
The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage.
Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.
We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.
We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.
Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.
We’re working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.
We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.
College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.