Dispatches

Newsbreak gathered this year’s most memorable quotes from the country’s most sensational events. If you ask us, the “Best Quotes Award” is a tossup between ousted president Joseph Estrada and former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri. Not far behind is presidential daughter Evangeline Lourders “Luli” Arroyo.

Take your pick.

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The day ended at 10 p.m. while I was on my way home aboard a service van of ABS-CBN. I was very exhausted and silent during the trip. Though the images of the events that happened during the last ten hours were still fresh in my mind, I felt calmer.

Two hours earlier, the situation was different, like a climax of a TV action series. I was among other members of the media who covered the standoff at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati and got arrested by the police. They told us it was part of their procedures.

After an hour-long trip from Makati to Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, the reporters were brought to a covered court inside the camp. There, we saw some of the people we interviewed hours before—former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Bishop Julio Labayen, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, and his supporters. Guingona looked exhausted.

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