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.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Architecture
As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.Collection: Legal
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!Collection: Death
I eat death threats for breakfast!Collection: Death
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.Collection: Death
Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Government
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.
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.
I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.
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.
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.
My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.
It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.
I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.
There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.
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.
No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.
Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.
I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
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.'
Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.
Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.
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.
Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.
The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.
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.
I want to be known as Terminator 2.
I am a bankable candidate.
I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.
Entering politics is a fate worse than death.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
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.
There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.
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.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.Collection: Education
Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.Collection: Hands
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.Collection: Cells
When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'Collection: Sana
I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.Collection: Helicopters