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" I am a bankable candidate. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Am
Candidate
I Am
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" 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 have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
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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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" 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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" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
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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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" 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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" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
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Always
Energy
" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Evil
I See
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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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Will
America
Philippines
" 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
" 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 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
" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Poverty
Corruption
Cancer
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Universe
Take
Right
" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Politics
Everything
You
" 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
" 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
" As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Legal
World
Technology
" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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Psychologist
Going
Habit
" 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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Think
Age
Death
" 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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Help
People
Said
" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
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Cancer
Career
Options
" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
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Too Much
Too
Corruption
" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "
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I May Not
May
" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "
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Country
Small
Wrong
" 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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Strategy
Push
America
" 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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Just
God
You