Filipino - Politician | June 15, 1945 - September 29, 2016
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
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Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.
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Entering politics is a fate worse than death.
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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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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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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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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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Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.
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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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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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Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.
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