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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sen. Miriam throws question at Roxas in face-off rd. of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PiliPinasDebates2016?src=hash">#PiliPinasDebates2016</a> LIVE STREAM: <a href="https://t.co/G3HemzHtam">https://t.co/G3HemzHtam</a> <a href="https://t.co/dgwzoig52y">https://t.co/dgwzoig52y</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/724202866135572480">April 24, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>MANILA - Liberal Party standard bearer Mar Roxas caught the attention of many when he quoted Batman in his reply to a question from his fellow presidential candidate, Senator Mirian Defensor-Santiago, during the third and final Commission on Elections-sanctioned presidential debate at the University of Pangasinan held Sunday.</p><p>Santiago asked Roxas: &quot;In all these years, you have been shaped by the elitist background from which you come and in which you operate. Do you not think that the path has been too narrow to be able to become the president of the Philippines?&quot;</p><p>&quot;As Batman said, it is not important how you came into this world. What is important is what you did with your life,&quot; Roxas replied. &quot;And my life, over the past 20 years, has been a public record.&quot;</p><p>&quot;You have been a witness to the many elements of my life as we worked together in the Senate, fighting for cheaper medicines, fighting the banks and the insurance companies, fighting for economic opportunity through economic treaties, fighting for what is good and what is right. My record stands for itself. It is not a question of how I came into this world, it is what I did with my life and how I dedicated my life to help my country.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2016/entertainment2/04/24/batman.jpeg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Christian Bale as Batman in the 2005 film &#x27;Batman Begins.&#x27; Warner Bros.</div></figcaption></figure></div><p>Here is the actual quote from Batman, as portrayed by actor Christian Bale. &quot;It&#x27;s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me,&quot; the caped crusader told Rachel Dawes, his childhood sweetheart, in the 2005 film &quot;Batman Begins&quot; (video below).</p><p>Batman echoed Dawes during an earlier conversation he had with her. He did it to give a hint about his secret identity before leaping from the top of a roof to save the remaining innocent bystanders from the escaped Arkham Asylum inmates.</p><figure class="op-social"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PmwLPU5H6_Q" width="510"></iframe></figure><p>For more in-depth coverage of the third and final Commission on Elections-sanctioned presidential debate, visit our <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/home">Halalan 2016 page</a>.</p>

Liberal Party standard bearer Mar Roxas caught the attention of many when he quoted Batman during the third and final Commission on Elections-sanctioned presidential debate at the University of Pangasinan held Sunday. 

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Did Mar Roxas quote Batman right?

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Published April 24, 2016 09:02 PM PHT

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