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" 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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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" I am a bankable candidate. "

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" I want to be known as Terminator 2. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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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" 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

" 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

" 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 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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

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