Words matter. These are the best Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.
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.
Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn’t you know?
I eat death threats for breakfast!
I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.
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.’
Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.
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.
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.
I want to be known as Terminator 2.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.
Entering politics is a fate worse than death.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.
I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.
The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
I have licked cancer, and I’m actually thinking of several career options.
I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.
I am a bankable candidate.
Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.
Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.
