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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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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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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God
You
" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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Thought
You
" 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
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People
Me
" 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.' "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
You
Free
Want
" 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
" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
I Am
I May Not
May
" 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
Strategy
Push
America
" 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! "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Now
Welcome
Death
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Angels
God
Pray
" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Cancer
Career
Options
" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Too Much
Too
Corruption
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Psychologist
Going
Habit
" 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
" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Fate
Worse
Than
" 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
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Angry
Me
Money
" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Poverty
Corruption
Cancer
" 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
" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Hardships
Physical
Passed
" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Evil
I See
Right
" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Know
You
Life
" 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
" 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
" 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
" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Country
Small
Wrong
" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Deepest
Corrupt
Culture
" 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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Positive
Women
Care