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1945–2016 Philippines
Miriam Palma Defensor-Santiago GCS QSC (June 15, 1945 – September 29, 2016) was a Filipino scholar, academic, lawyer, judge, author, stateswoman, and politician who served in all three branches of the Philippine government: judicial, executive, and legislative. Defensor Santiago was known for being a long-serving senator of the Philippines, an elected judge of the International Criminal Court, and the sole female recipient of the Philippines' highest national honor, the Quezon Service Cross.
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My only purpose is to serve out the rest of my life.
I have said this before, and I will say it again: All things work for good to those who love God.
I may not be a genius, but my opponents are certifiable idiots.
Entering politics is a fate worse than death.
You have to communicate in a certain way. You don't just enter social media for your own benefit.
What our country needs is a sense of shared destiny.
This man, contrary to logic and common sense, hopes to evade criminal prosecution and public outrage over his plunder, by resurrecting campaign dirt against me which are over 21 years old!”
I will never quit! I will never stop! I will never withdraw!"
Sometimes a joke is much better than a punch line because it illumines the situation, gives you a worldview of the situation taking place in our country.
No, I don’t want to watch these clowns. I die a thousand deaths every time a corrupt politician appears”
This is goodbye. I shall not importune you any longer. I shall fade into the night like Batman.
Stop molesting me, you mongoloids!
We are rich in natural resources, we are rich in people resources. And yet we hear from analysts and economists we are the poorest in Asia.
Why are we so poor? Everybody wants to have the money of the government in his own pocket.
I eat death threats for breakfast.
Maybe they will be happy because on one hand I might die and then they could get rid of me. But on the other hand, I might survive and then I will get rid of them.
Discombobulated moral retardates!
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