Corazon Aquino Quotations

I salute the 51 congressmen who voted (for the impeachment complaints.) It's not over yet. There will always be hope.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.

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

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.