There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes.

I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to leave and enhance my love life with my husband.

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

There are five requirements for an accused to turn state witness. One of the requirements is that the accused does not appear to be the most guilty.

It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

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

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

I want to be known as Terminator 2.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.

A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.

I eat death threats for breakfast!

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.