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“I am a bankable candidate.”
“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.”
“No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.”
“I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.”
“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.”
“Entering politics is a fate worse than death.”
“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.”
“There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.”
“It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.”
“As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.”
“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.”
“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 will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.”
“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.”
“Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“I want to be known as Terminator 2.”
“I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.”