Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

Filipino - Politician | June 15, 1945 - September 29, 2016

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

CulturePeopleDeepestNeedFilipino

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

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CorruptionPovertyAttentionCancer

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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PositiveEducationWomenHealthCare

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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NatureExperienceControlPolitical

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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GodSaltWillAngelsEnemiesTurn

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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GodDeathPeopleMeBelievePerson

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

MoneyCorruptionToo MuchAvailable

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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MoneyGovernmentAngryPeopleMe

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

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MyselfHabitGoingPsychologist

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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UniverseLookEarthMeanRight

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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WomenMenSexyAttentionSex

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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IntegrityWillNeverChinaDefense

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