“The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty...” — Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quote

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

“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.'”

“Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.”

“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.”

“Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.”

“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.”

“Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.”

“We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.”

“Kim was the one who taught us how to use Twitter and how to engage and really capture the attention of followers and the fans.”

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”

“It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.”