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" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Discriminate
Illegal
Budget
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" Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency. "
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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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" 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 want to be known as Terminator 2. "
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" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
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" I am a bankable candidate. "
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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Free
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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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Attention
Women
" 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
Life
Live Life
Me
" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
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Career
Options
" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
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Too
Corruption
" I eat death threats for breakfast! "
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Breakfast
Death
" 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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Believe
People
Me
" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Politics
Everything
You
" 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
" 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
" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "
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Small
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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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" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "
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May
" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
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Evil
I See
Right
" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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Corrupt
Culture
" 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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God
Pray
" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
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Physical
Passed
" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "
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Corruption
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" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "
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You