List of Political Catch Phrases - Philippines

Philippines

• "The Filipino is worth dying for." – Benigno Aquino, Jr., former Philippine senator and opposition leader against then-President Ferdinand Marcos.
• "Sa ikauunlad ng bayan, disiplina ang kailangan." (For the progress of the nation, what is needed is discipline.) – Ferdinand Marcos, former Philippine president.
• "I... am... sorry." – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, then Philippine president, apologizes after a wiretapping controversy wherein she was allegedly found to have cheated in the 2004 presidential elections.
• "Binabalaan ko sila: walang kaibigan, walang kumpare, walang kamag-anak, o anak na maaaring magsamantala sa ngayon. At ngayon pa lamang sinasabi ko sa inyo, nag-aaksaya lamang kayo ng panahon. Huwag ninyo akong subukan." (I am warning them: no friends, no best friends, no family members or children may take advantage now. And now, I am telling you, you are just wasting your time. Don't dare me.) – Joseph Ejercito-Estrada, former Philippine president in his 1998 inaugural address.
• "She has stolen the presidency, not once, but twice!" – Susan Roces, widow of defeated 2004 presidential candidate Fernando Poe, Jr.. Roces claimed that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had stolen the presidency twice: during the ousting of Joseph Estrada in 2001, and during the 2004 elections, where Arroyo had allegedly cheated Poe of the presidency.
• "I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power." – Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator, on the impending ouster against Joseph Estrada in 2001.
• "I lied!" – Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator, after Joseph Estrada was kicked from the presidency in 2001. Santiago recanted her promise of jumping headfirst from a helicopter in the event that Estrada is removed from power.
• "Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap." (If there are no corrupt, there will be no poverty.) – used by then-Presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III during the 2010 presidential campaign.
• "Kayo ang boss ko, kaya't hindi maaaring hindi ako makinig sa mga utos ninyo!" (You are my boss, so I can never ignore your orders!) – Benigno Aquino III, incumbent President of the Philippines to the half-a-million people who witnessed his inauguration at the Quirino Grandstand, Manila on 30 June 2010.