“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”

— Diosdado Macapagal

During campaign stops in 1961, as reported in "Common Man's President" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828848,00.html, Time, 24 November 1961

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