“That whatever position I'm holding right now won't last forever. It will come to an end, and so I better be sure that at the end of it all I'd still be able to hold my head up high and still be able to live and breath freely.”

—  Francis Escudero

on the best political advice his father has given to him
"The Commissioner", FHM 01 September 2010, p. 54.
2010

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