The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.
As your president, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people's wellbeing.
I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.
On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.