"No challenge is too great when the cause is just."

"I apologized to former President Joseph Estrada for the role I played in his ouster in 2001."

"The honeymoon is over, isn't it? But I am not sorry. The sooner we get over the fantasy of the honeymoon and face the hard work of marriage — the marriage of President and nation — the better."

"I believe in the wisdom of the Filipino people."

"Once again, I must involve myself in what I hoped and prayed to be spared from, after devoting the best years of my life in the service of the country, and at a price that included the highest anyone …"