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We have been fighting the longest running communist insurgency in history. We have been coming to grips with fundamentalist terrorism long before 9/11.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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Machinery is often of little value when the administration's standard bearer is behind in the surveys.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

E-VAT was the centerpiece of perhaps the greatest and most long-playing achievement of my presidency, fiscal reform management.

Victory is a powerful word, but it often reeks of pride and hubris. Vengeance is sweet, but it is hateful. Vindication is my preferred word.

From Bonifacio at Balintawak to Cory Aquino at EDSA and up to today, we have struggled to bring power to the people, and this country to the eminence it deserves.

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I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

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Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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