Miriam Defensor Santiago

Miriam Defensor Santiago

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.

Quotes

• I have said this before, and I will say it again: All things work for good to those who love God.
  • Source: Miriam turns 71 Inquirer.net

• I may not be a genius, but my opponents are certifiable idiots.
  • Santiago said in her presidential campaign speech in 1992.

• I eat death threats for breakfast.
  • Said Santiago, who was undaunted by reported death threats against her.

• 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.
  • Said Santiago in a press conference in 2014 when she announced that she had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

• This is goodbye. I shall not importune you any longer. I shall fade into the night like Batman.
  • Said Santiago upon her resignation as secretary of Department of Agrarian and Reform in 1990.

• Stop molesting me, you mongoloids!
  • Senator Santiago on calls for her resign from the senate. Kapihan sa Senado press forum. July 12, 2012. 1

• Eat, blank, and die.”
  • Miriam told her fellow senators who allegedly got involved in the P10-billion pork-barrel scam in 2013.

• I will never quit! I will never stop! I will never withdraw!"
  • Said Senator Miriam amid black propaganda against her at the height of the 2016 presidential elections.

• 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!”
  • Said Senator Miriam in a jab against long-time nemesis during her 2013 privilege speech.

• Discombobulated moral retardates!
  • Said Miriam, blasting government officials who organized a protest against her after she was appointed as Department of Agrarian Reform secretary in 1989.

• No, I don’t want to watch these clowns. I die a thousand deaths every time a corrupt politician appears”
  • Santiago’s handwritten response to an aide after she was asked whether she wanted to watch a TV talk show while confined for a vehicular accident in 1992. Of The Most Memorable Political Quotes From Miriam Defensor-Santiago

• Entering politics is a fate worse than death.
  • Santiago on being asked to comment on her political ambitions. Of The Most Memorable Political Quotes From Miriam Defensor-Santiago

• I may not be a genius, but my opponents are certifiable idiots.
  • She said in her presidential campaign speech in 1992. 15 unforgettable quotes by Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago

• 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.
  • Said Miriam in a July 2014 presscon where she announced that she had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. 15 unforgettable quotes by Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago

• Why are we so poor? Everybody wants to have the money of the government in his own pocket.
  • We are poor because everybody wants gov’t money in his own pocket—Santiago Inquirer.net

• 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.
  • We are poor because everybody wants gov’t money in his own pocket—Santiago Inquirer.net

• What our country needs is a sense of shared destiny.
  • We are poor because everybody wants gov’t money in his own pocket—Santiago Inquirer.net

• My only purpose is to serve out the rest of my life.
  • [1]. "Miriam Defensor-Santiago to skip second presidential debate". 18 March 2016.

• 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.
  • [2]. 01 January 2015.

• You have to communicate in a certain way. You don't just enter social media for your own benefit.
  • [3]. "Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago: “Sometimes a joke is much better...because it illumines the situation". 01 January 2015.

External links

Miriam to enemies: Stop molesting me, you mongoloids!