Miriam Defensor-Santiago

“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.”

“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.”

“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 have passed all the physical hardships known to man.”

“Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.”

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

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

“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!”

“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.”

“I eat death threats for breakfast!”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”