The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

Once a champion, always a champion.

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.