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Let's continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) will bring us not only 79 votes, but more than 79 (votes),
One must be frank to be relevant.
The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.
There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.
I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.
I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.
I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.
As our country bled ... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.
Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.
It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.