Official Website of Senator Mar Roxas

Today is July 24, 2008

“Do i want change for our country? The answer is yes. Do I think I can do a better job? The answer is yes. Do I think that our country could be in a much better place? The answer is yes, " SENATOR MAR ROXAS , in an hour long interview on ANC.

“You can only tell the true measure of a person after you’ve given them power. Some people turn into petty tyrants. Other people are even more gracious, even more polite and try to do the right thing, because it’s great responsibility.”

“When I started this whole BPO industry here, it was a secret. We had 3,000 people in our country in the year 2000. Today, we have 200,000 high-quality jobs and we’re known all over the world and we can grow as fast as we produce the people. The limiting factor now is our present educational system.”

“It’s important that you recognize everything and you define it by its proper name, because if you define it improperly, your solution and your action will also be wrong. It’s marking to market – magpakatotoo ka.”

“Destinies of nations are not preordained. Nations do progress, but they can also retrogress and decline. Even as we recognize destinies of nations are not preordained, we also recognize that very much so, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, destinies of nations very much are dependent on what citizens decide to do with their nation.”

“Why should an Indian, a Thai, a Vietnamese, or a Pakistani have access to medicines much more affordable than for a Filipino? What we need to do now is amend our laws so that we can conform it and avail of the flexibilities that other governments have availed of.”

“I refuse to be pigeonholed. I am Mar Roxas; these are my beliefs, and this is where I’m going to take the country.”

“Never give up the long term. There are many times we are tempted, with “okey lang ‘yan,” “bahala na,” “pwede na ‘yan,” These little things can add up, until we surrender our true potential. So never give up the long term. Believe in yourselves, believe in your own efforts, believe in our country and believe in your future.”

"The victory that we [Liberal Party] seek is the victory of the Filipino people. Their fight is our fight. We believe that the people are the masters of government and not that the government is the master of the people." [Oras Na! Speech / LP NECO meeting and Election of Party President_26 November 2007]

"Whenever policy is wrong, we are the party that will say ‘No!' and make an honest and determined effort to provide solutions. As important as it is for us to know ‘whodunit', for our future, it is even more important to know the ‘how-to-solve-it'." [Oras Na! Speech / LP NECO meeting and Election of Party President_26 November 2007]