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<b>Bookmark to watch the funeral mass live for former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago at 1PM<br /><br />MANILA, Philippines – Former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago will be laid to rest on Sunday, October 2.<br /><br />A mass will be held at the Cubao Cathedral at 1pm. After that, she will be buried in Marikina.<br /><br />Santiago died Thursday, September 28, following a long battle with lung cancer.</b><br />
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LIVE(10/2/16): Funeral for Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago

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<span style="color: magenta;">Miriam Defensor Santiago's political career has been filled with <a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html">bombastic words and fiery zingers</a></span></h2>
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<br /><br /><b>MIRIAM. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago gestures as she explains her not guilty vote on Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona at the conclusion of <a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html">Corona's impeachment</a> trial in Manila on May 29, 2012. Bullit Marquez/Pool/AFP<br /><br />MANILA, Philippines – The political career of former senator Miriam Defensor Santiago has been filled with bombastic words and fiery zingers.<br /><br />Here are some of her memorable quotes and lines. <br />_______________________________________________________________________________</b><div>
<b><br />"Sir, I remind you that as the <a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html">Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation</a>, I represent the majesty of the Republic of the Philippines. You have the obligation to show respect and courtesy to me. Now shut up, or I'll knock your teeth off!"<br /><br />– Santiago, to a foreign suspect who interrupted her during a press conference when she headed the agency know known as the Bureau of Immigration<br /><br />_______________________________________________________________________________</b></div>
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<b><br />"This is goodbye. I shall not importune you any longer. I shall fade into the night like</b></div>
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<b>Batman."<br /><br />– Santiago, during her last press conference as agrarian reform secretary in 1990<br /><br />_______________________________________________________________________________</b></div>
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<b><br />"I lied!"</b></div>
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<b><br />– Santiago, in 2001, when asked about her <a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html">promise of jumping off a plane</a> if then-president Joseph Estrada would be arrested<br /><br />________________________________________________________________________________<br />"I'm not angry. I am irate. I am foaming at the mouth. I'm homicidal. I'm suicidal. I'm</b></div>
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<b>humiliated, debased, degraded. And not only that, I feel like throwing up to be living my middle years in a country of this nature. I am nauseated. I spit in the face of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban and his cohorts in the Supreme Court."<br /><br />– Santiago, after she was removed from the <a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html">shortlist of nominees for Supreme Court Chief </a>Justice in 2005<br /><br />_______________________________________________________________________________<br />"Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody."<br /><br />– Santiago, during an interview with GMA News TV’s Powerhouse in 2012</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><b>People's Reform Party presidential candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago speaks at a press briefing on May 15, 1992. Robyn Beck/AFP<br /><br /><br />"We're all for honest government and yet the world condemns us as one of the<a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html"> most corrupt countries in the world</a>. That's why it's hard to win in international elections or campaigns because the Philippines has the reputation of being a corrupt country.<br />Iniisip ng iba, kung corrupt ang bayan, walang lalabas na matino diyan, walang ibubuga yan. Bawa't isa ba inyo, walang sala tungkol sa SALN? Bigyan niyo ako ng isa pang buhay, Panginoon bigyan mo pa ako ng isa pang buhay para imbestigahan lahat yan. Dito sa Senate or sa House of Representatives!"<br /><br />– Santiago, during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2013<br /><br />________________________________________________________________________________</b><div>
<b><br />"Magiging 90 ka na, kasing-tanda mo na si Tanda [Juan Ponce Enrile]. Pinoproteksyunan mo ang tao na siya ang pinaka-guilty. I will give you this counsel: Tell the truth before the senators affected have you assassinated. You will turn 90, you'll be as old as that old man. You're protecting the man who's most guilty. Think about it. This is a friendly tip from a lawyer."<br /><br />– Santiago, to alleged mastermind Janet Lim Napoles during a Senate investigation into the pork barrel scam, November 2013</b><div>
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<b><br />"God is neither up above nor out there. Instead, God is found in here. In the human mind, in the human conscience. That is why, you are not only graduating with a bachelor’s degree today, you are graduating to a place nearer where God is. Because God is in here. God is in you."<br /><br />– Santiago, in a commencement speech at the University of the Philippines Cebu in 2014.</b></div>
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<b><br />"Tanong: Kung ang opposite ng 'pro' ay 'con,' ano naman ang opposite ng 'progress'? Sagot: Congress."<br /><br />– One of Santiago's jokes and pick-up lines in a speech at the University of Perpetual Help, Laguna, March 2016</b></div>
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<b>_______________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/2016/09/pick-up-line-miriams-water-pick-up.html">Check out Miriam's other memorable jokes over the years:</a></b></div>
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<b><br />"Stage 4 is the last stage [of cancer]. Nag-aantay ako mamatay, eh hindi ako pinatay ng guardian angel ko eh!"<br /><br />– Santiago, when asked about her health, which was affecting her Senate attendance, during the 1st presidential debate of the 2016 elections</b></div>
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<b>_______________________________________________________________________________<br />"I have been the subject of much black propaganda concerning my health. I have never been false to the Filipino people... I will never quit, I will never stop, I will never withdraw."<br /><br />– Santiago, in her closing statement during the last presidential debate of the 2016 elections</b></div>
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LOOk: Miriam Santiago: Memorable quotes, lines, zingers.

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BREAKING NEWS: Former senator Miriam Defensor Santiago dies at age 71.

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<span style="color: magenta;">Former Senator <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/watch-emotional-de-lima-dares-duterte.html">Miriam Defensor</a> Santiago, 71, succumbed to <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/">cancer </a>on Thursday morning, her husband Atty. <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/watch-emotional-de-lima-dares-duterte.html">Jun Santiago </a>said.</span></h2>
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<br /><b>"She died peacefully in her sleep this morning," Santiago said.<br /><br /><br />The former lawmaker passed away while confined at the <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/watch-emotional-de-lima-dares-duterte.html">St. Luke's </a>Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City.<br /><br /><br />Her official Twitter account posted a message midmorning that former Sen. Santiago died at 8:52 a.m.<br /><br /><br />It was in 2014 when the former <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/watch-emotional-de-lima-dares-duterte.html">lawmaker</a> said that she had stage 4 lung cancer.<br /><br /><br />Born in Iloilo City on June 15, 1945, the former senator ran for president in the May 2016 elections but lost to Rodrigo Duterte. She also sought the presidency in 1992 (won by Fidel Ramos) and 1998 (won by Joseph Estrada).<br /><br /><br />Santiago has been dubbed as the "Iron Lady of Asia" for her no-nonsense drive against graft and corruption when she served all the three brances of the government—<a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/watch-emotional-de-lima-dares-duterte.html">judicial, executive, and legislative.</a><br /><br /><br />"In a nation where many public officials are charged with, or suspected, of plunder, her honesty shines like a light in the darkness," her Senate <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/watch-emotional-de-lima-dares-duterte.html">biography</a> read.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />SOURCE: <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/583161/news/nation/former-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-age-71">GMA</a></b>

BREAKING NEWS: Former senator Miriam Defensor Santiago dies at age 71.

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