Statesman Quotes

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Little boys have amazing minds.
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
Once a champion, always a champion.
President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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