67 Quotes by Benigno Aquino III

With proper governance, life will improve for all.

Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.