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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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I eat death threats for breakfast! "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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