Controversial Sayings

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.

We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

There are enough political parties and I do not want to add more confusion.

I am not one to give up very easily.

I guess there were very great expectations... Many people believed that in the short space of six months, many of our problems would be solved. I guess this has disappointed some of them.

The only way to make a difference is to stand up and be counted.

No challenge is too great when the cause is just.

I would rather be remembered for standing for something than falling for everything.

The Communist leadership here either misread or misjudged the last election. In effect, they worked against me.

My husband was incarcerated for seven years and seven months, and it was one of the military that shot him. But I am no longer just the widow of Ninoy. I am the President of the Philippines.

I cannot afford to be distant from my people because whatever power I have came from them. And I have to know what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong. If I just sit around here, I will never find out.

Because of the restoration of democracy, and because the great majority of the Filipino people really believe in the democratic way, the left -- the extreme left -- have really lost their following.

I have indicated also that it is the express wish of the Filipino people that Mr Marcos not return to this country because it will again incite so many of these people against Mr Marcos.

Since he got away with most of the country's money, it is so easy for him to be financing all of these so-called demonstrators.

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 can pay.

To an immoral government belongs a demoralized people.