Quotes from Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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