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All Quotes by author - Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "

" As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments. "

" Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect. "

" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "

" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "

" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "

" 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. "

" I am a bankable candidate. "

" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I eat death threats for breakfast! "

" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "

" 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. "

" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "

" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "

" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "

" I want to be known as Terminator 2. "

" 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. "

" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "

" No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes. "

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