Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

I eat death threats for breakfast!

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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!

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.