“Prior to martial law, we had only around a million Filipino immigrants to foreign countries. Today, estimates reach nine million Filipinos who have voted with their feet.”

The Daily Tribune http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/us-rebuffs-rp-plea-to-gain-gi-custody <br class="br">2014

2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget

2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate

Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2015, July 17). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153429805435610/ <br class="br">2015, Facebook

Source: Culture and History

From a speech at the 2007 College Republican National Convention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGit_tZDqs in Washington, DC. <br class="br">2000s

Speech on Civil Liberties http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1939/12/09/speech-of-president-quezon-on-civil-liberties-december-9-1939/, delivered on the occasion of the interuniversity oratorical contest held under the auspices of the Civil Liberties Union at the Ateneo auditorium, Manila, on December 9, 1939 <br class="br">Variant: I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans <br class="br">Context: It is true, and I am proud of it, that I once said, “I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.” I want to tell you that I have, in my life, made no other remark which went around the world but that. There had been no paper in the United States, including a village paper, which did not print that statement, and I also had seen it printed in many newspapers in Europe. I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner. I said that once; I say it again, and I will always say it as long as I live.

As quoted in Bannon: Always the Rebel (2017) by Keith Koffler

2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate