JoeAm's Really Spectacularly Famous Quotes

• "I swear like a pig heading to the fiesta."

• "This bitter carping is what distinguishes the Philippines as a Banana Republic and represents the Get Real rabble raisers as little more than bananas with a keyboard."

• " It is strange that the strengths that are important to generating wealth are the ones that are torn down by those who can’t acquire those strengths. "

• "This nation does not need a tele-drama government. It needs professionalism."

• "Jack fruit trees are the perverts of the fruit family."

•  "If Aquino were Marcos, does anyone in the room think Chief Justice Corona would have a job?"

• "You are in a foxhole with the President and you aren't willing to watch his back?"

• " Oil a feminist issue? The shortage of whitening oils would be a Filipina feminist issue."

• "Compassion is hard to find on a group of islands where Ego would be the national flag if someone could figure out how to paint it."

• "Hiring anyone on any basis but competence undermines national security as effectively as IED's in the workplace."

• "The delta drive is passion for the well-being of all of us. It is deep, it is personal. It is missing, here, in the Philippines."

• "Twitter: The place where headlines pretend to be the whole story."

• "Did JoeAm really post a blog that said Filipinos have their brains installed in reverse? Did he really make this same accusation to his wife? Does he still have his gonads??"

• The blame-mongering and excuse-mongering here is exquisite. The 115th dialect of the Philippines is the whine.

• If I were a Mormon and I saw the abuse being tossed at poor Mitt Romney, I would declare an empanada against the heathen faiths and launch a fat war.

• I exclaimed to my wife the other day that "I may have a large ego, but I am thoughtful". She exclaimed back, "thought fool?"