Diosdado Macapagal

Diosdado Macapagal (1910-1997), popularly known as Honest Dadang, Honest Mac, and Poor Man's Best Friend, full name Diosdado Pangan Macapagal, was a Philippine politician and poet. He used to tell his rags-to-riches story to the people. It moved the people to such an extent that they voted him to power. He became president of the Republic of the Philippines in 1961. However, he was defeated in 1965 after an economic trouble in the country.

Wisdom & Quotes

• I remember as a young man striving for an education how I walked three kilometres back and forth from the slums... to the state university. ...I would walk that distance under the rain, starved, sleepy, shivering, and with the raindrops mixing with the tears on my cheeks, but I stood it all because as a poor boy, like the children of the countless miserable families in our country today, I also dreamed of a better life for myself.

Akira Kurosawa