Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
