Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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

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

I eat death threats for breakfast!

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.