Miriam Defensor-Santiago

I am a bankable candidate.

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.

The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

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.

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 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.

There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

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.

Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.

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.