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" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Too Much
Too
Corruption
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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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" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
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" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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" That's the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, 'Well, tell us what you want it for, but you are free to decide where to spend it on.' "
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" 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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" I want to be known as Terminator 2. "
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" 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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" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
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" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "
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Thought
You
" Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation. "
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Like
Government
" 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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Age
Death
" I am a bankable candidate. "
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Candidate
I Am
" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
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Hardships
Physical
Passed
" 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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Angels
God
Pray
" 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
" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
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Worse
Than
" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Country
Small
Wrong
" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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Going
Habit
" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Know
You
Life
" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "
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I Am
I May Not
May
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Guilty
Five
Witness
" 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
" 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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Money
" 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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" 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
" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
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Discriminate
Illegal
Budget
" 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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Women
Care
" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
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Evil
I See
Right
" 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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People
Me