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" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 want to be known as Terminator 2. "

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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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

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" I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "

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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

" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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

" 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

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" 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

" 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

" Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion. "

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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" 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. "

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

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