Philippines Quotes

Yes, we knew that sooner or later, with the build up in the Philippines, in Indonesia and after the KKM arrests in Malaysia that they were bound to penetrate us. - Lee Kuan Yew

While we welcome Arroyo's rescinding of the state of emergency, we call on her to prove her commitment to the safety of journalists and a free media in the Philippines. - Warren Christopher

While the e-VAT and the impeachment issue have both been resolved favorably in recent days, we are maintaining our negative outlook on the Philippines' ratings. - James McCormack

When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn't write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I managed to write a few poems. It was reassuring to be able to write poems while I was in this terrible war. - Kenneth Koch

What would be under consideration is what to do with the negative outlook - whether to revert that back to stable, or to retain the negative outlook, or to downgrade the credit. But upgrading (the rating) from a negative outlook is not something that happens very frequently, and I don't expect that would happen in the case of the Philippines. - James McCormack

What the world seemed to miss is that the stock market didn't plunge, the peso didn't collapse and bond yields didn't shoot up. And people here in the Philippines didn't panic. - Luz Lorenzo

What attracts us to Del Monte is that a significant portion of its revenues are export driven. Del Monte also has a very strong brand in the Philippines, it's starting in India and has a growing presence in China. - Manuel Pangilinan

We've been looking at the Philippines and we had no feeling of risk... No indication there would be any problem. - Scott Ross

We've been able to respond to their needs. We sell spring wheat in 100 markets each year, and they're consistently our third largest (market) behind Japan and the Philippines. They pay premium prices, and they pay cash. - Neal Fisher

We would like to congratulate the (election officials), the armed forces of the Philippines, the Philippine national police, for making sure that these were relatively peaceful and orderly elections. - Rigoberto Tiglao