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Rowena Guanzon Quotes

born 1957 Philippines

Maria Rowena Amelia Villena Guanzon (born August 29, 1957), is a Filipina lawyer, public servant, politician and activist who notably served as Philippine Commission on Elections commissioner from 2015 to 2022 under President Benigno Aquino III and President Rodrigo Duterte. She had been an audit commissioner before taking office at the Philippine Commission on Elections in February 2015.

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Random Rowena Guanzon quote

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We are not a stamping pad of an overaged, disqualified pretender.

I want to be remembered as a commissioner who served with honor and excellence. I stuck to independent decisions and was the lone dissenter in several Comelec decisions.

People in Rockwell aren’t like this, so, they are Chinese. He even said, ‘No, you are contagious, you should leave.’ Contagious, just a cough? My national pride was hurt. I said, how dare you.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rowena Guanzon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.