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Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

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Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

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

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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.

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Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.

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

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The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Filipino

Type: Politician

Born: June 15th, 1945

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