Famous quotes from our Political Leaders!

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Miriam Defensor-Santiago:
"i eat deaththreats for breakfast"

"love is only for the insecure"

"I don't know if he is a cop or a robber, or both a cop and a robber." (on Senator Lacson)

"She has risen above nature and heredity." (on GMA)

"...I'll use direct methods, like poisoning their coffee..." (answering the question how she would deal with her colleagues in politics)

"I wonder how spiderman is like in bed having sex." - Miriam Defensor Santiago interviewed on Wazzup Wazzup

"He should write his memoirs, especially his sex life which I heard is very active." (referring to Pimentel)

"Verbal diarrhea" (On Pimentel's flibustering)

"Fungus Faced" (referring to a congressman)

"magpapabaril ako sa luneta.."

"Di na uso ang death threaths ngayon. Di mo ba alam, weapons of mass destruction na ngayon, tanga!"

"Our politicians exhibit what I call the epidermis of pachyderms." - Miriam again
describing the contemporary politician

"I'd rather join the Miss Universe pageant where I have better chances of winning." (answering a query about her presidential plans (BID Commissioner palang ata siya nito)

"The land of the living dead, a body full of oleaginous characters, where corruption is at its most paradigmatic" Miriam Defensor describing the Philippine Senate in her book.

"I lied! Har Har Har!"

"All of these is nothing, but a public entertainment!"

"I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of
honor."

"Times have changed. It has already worn out its value"

"I believe they dont want to put a stop to these investigations because they want to oust the President through extra-constitutional measures"

"The problem with the Americans is that they are overpaid, oversexed, and over here."

"This was my position during the E-VAT debates in the Senate. Because of the stratospheric price of global oil, I believe that to implement the law at this time will be disastrous to the poor,"

"Noli de Castro, whose middle name is 'I' for 'Idiot'."

"i will fade into the night...like batman..." (hahahahahha! dabest! --vani)

"That's propesterous!"
- Jaworski, sana'y wag nang magbalik

"May timbangan ako ng manok sa bahay!"
- Ramon Revilla, Sr. (impeachment)

"Your Wetness" (witness)
- Sergio Apostol (impeachment)

"It was a misunderstatement"
- George W. Bush

"walang kai-kaibigan!! walang kama-kamag-anak!!!"
-- former President Joseph Estrada on his inauguration address, June 1998

"The witness, Mr. Pritu (Mr. Prieto)"
- Sergio Apostol during the impeachment proceedings agaisnt Joseph Estrada


Imelda Marcos:
"My life is a fairy tale."

"Yes, I did spend money. Ten million here, ten million there...so petty!"
-Reply from a miffed Imelda Marcos when asked in an interview if it was true that she spent enormous amounts of money for shopping, etc.

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty" (gee, that's comforting)

"We practically own everything in the Philippines!"

"Win or lose, we go shopping after the election."

"God is love, I have loved. Therefore I will go to heaven." (Ganyan dapat ang logic!)

"People say I'm extravagant, because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?" -Madame Marcos again (and again and again)

"mister ispiker, mister ispiker!!!..."
--digs dilangalen.
"SHATAAAP! SHATAAAP!! "
-digs dilangalen

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and consciously fulfill my duties as president of the Philippines, preserve and defend its Constitution, execute its laws, do justice to
every man, and consecrate myself to the service of the Nation. So help me God."
- GMA

"noted."
-Sen. Kiko Pangilinan

"i may be 4'9" up there...but i'm 9'4" down there!" -Sen. Juan Flavier (hehe)

"Super pandak."
- Sen. Pimentel describing GMA on Wazzup Wazzup

"It was an accomodation fitting for my stature."
- First Gentleman Mike Arroyo on the controversial hotel suite accomodation in Las Vegas worth US$ 20,000 a night.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
-Bill Clinton, President (engers..)

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
-Al Gore, VP (engers ulit!)

"let us focus on rebuilding the country"
-GMA, saying na di na sya tatakbo

"i decided to forego my retirement"
-GMA, retraction nya.

babayaran ko ang utang ng pilipinas
- eddie gil (where is he now anyway?)

"walang kaibi-kaibigan
walang kumpa-kumpare
walang kama-kamag-anak
chuvaness.. "
-ERAP, of course

"There what it takes to be. Then we shall so be it because it is. To do or not to is in the what, now or what else. Without which there never to you!"
- words of wisdom from Senator Lito Lapid.

Eto memorable sa akin:
"My feeling is we all have to die sometime and if it's my fate to die by an assassin's bullet, so be it."

And this he said to the journalists who were on
the plane with him on that fateful day:
"You have to be ready with your camera because events will happen very fast...in a matter of 3 or 4 minutes it could be all over...and I may not be able to talk to you again after this..."

At syempre:
"The Filipino is worth dying for."

-all by NINOY AQUINO