Corazon Aquino Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Corazon Aquino
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“One must be frank to be relevant.”
Frankness Quotes
“The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.”
Media Quotes
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
Patience Quotes
“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.”
Politics / government Quotes
“It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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