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" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Hardships
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" I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God. "
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" The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty. "
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" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
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" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
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" I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt. "
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" I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology before Noah's Ark. And it got lost because that was the first Ice Age. "
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" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "
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" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "
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Now
Welcome
Death
" The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security. "
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" Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going. "
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Universe
Take
Right
" Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Leaders
Seek
Presidency
" There are five requirements for an accused to turn state witness. One of the requirements is that the accused does not appear to be the most guilty. "
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Five
Witness
" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
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Cancer
Career
Options
" Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men. "
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Women
Division
Government
" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "
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Positive
Women
Care
" No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Just
God
You
" I am a bankable candidate. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Am
Candidate
I Am
" My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Help
People
Said
" In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Computers
System
Control
" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Evil
I See
Right
" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Psychology
Always
Energy
" Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect. "
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Ambition
Suffering
Personal
" We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed. "
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Way
People
Run
" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
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Too Much
Too
Corruption
" I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to leave and enhance my love life with my husband. "
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Strong
Love
" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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Going
Habit
" What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable. "
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Angry
Me
Money
" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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Deepest
Corrupt
Culture
" Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Control
Experience
America
" I eat death threats for breakfast! "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Threats
Breakfast
Death