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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Chronic deficits drastically reduce government’s ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I follow my father’s philosphy; ‘Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I will follow my father’s footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I’m glad of it. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
