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1941–2005 Philippines
Raul Sagarbarria Roco (October 26, 1941 – August 5, 2005) was a Filipino politician. He was the founder and presidential nominee of Aksyon Demokratiko, which he founded in 1997 as a vehicle for his presidential bid in 1998 and his second one in 2004.
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There is no place in a democracy for humiliating people as a policy instrument.
Transparency is the way to fight graft and corruption.
I think the three people here tonight can end the elections today – if they just agree with each other.
The people is the final arbiter. Politics is won in one day.
When the spark of greatness leads to an act of self-giving, we cross the threshold of heroism.
Read, read and read for when you read, you stand on the shoulders of giants, you see farther than the rest.
Equal opportunity should be given to all and special privileges for none.
The problem with lies is they do not only quarrel with the truth. They also quarrel among themselves.
If I must err, I prefer to err on the side of action and decision, not on the side of inaction and indecision.
We cannot criticize the Emperor for having no clothes if we ourselves are naked.
We often forget that it is people who are important. Political pragmatism cannot replace the caring for and nurturing of people. Money and influence cannot replace truth or principle.
I have developed a healthy suspicion of power. We want dispersal of power, dispersal of participation, and dispersal of development and human resources.
The Greeks tell us that the law should not be like a spider’s web that can catch only flies. Instead the law should be a chain of words strong enough to imprison even the powerful.
A strong republic does not make a strong nation. Strong people make a strong nation. It’s not the strong republic that makes strong people.
Never lie. Lying never pays. Don’t make your life difficult by lying. When you lie, you have to create different versions of the story to different people. Make your life easier by seeking and telling the truth.
If we are good teachers, our students will not need us anymore when they learn to fly away on their wings. Our success as teachers is measured precisely by the independence that our students have learned from us.
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