Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Quotes

I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.

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.

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.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

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.

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

For those who want to pick up old fights, we’re game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

Individually, we’ve taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.

The people want a government that works for them at every level.

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation’s accolade.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

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.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government’s ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

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 can’t do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.

Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That’s why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.

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 military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.