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" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
I Am
I May Not
May
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" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
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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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" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
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" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "
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Politics
Everything
You
" 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
" 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
" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Discriminate
Illegal
Budget
" 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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Result
Like
Government
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Way
People
Run
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Women
Division
Government
" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Know
You
Life
" Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Leaders
Seek
Presidency
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Integrity
Will
Never
" I eat death threats for breakfast! "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Threats
Breakfast
Death
" Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Ambition
Suffering
Personal
" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Evil
I See
Right
" The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Will
America
Philippines
" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Deepest
Corrupt
Culture
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Men
Attention
Women
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Think
Age
Death
" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Hardships
Physical
Passed
" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Fate
Worse
Than
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Happy
Strong
Love
" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Politics
Thought
You
" I am a bankable candidate. "
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Am
Candidate
I Am
" I want to be known as Terminator 2. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Known
Terminator
Want