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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "

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" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness. "

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" Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I eat death threats for breakfast! "

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" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "

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

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" I am a bankable candidate. "

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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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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. "

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" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "

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

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" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "

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" 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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