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The constitution does not require me. Look at me, do I look like I'm in pain ? actually for the purposes of performing my functions are President, I'm alright.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is a neverending war...( When I came to power) I expected everybody was working well, i did not know when I arrived, when I got to look into the records of drug cases, then I realized that I was fighting against my own government, because of the police, the customs, and everyone else were dipping their dirty fingers into it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This vaping, they say it is electronic. Don't give me that shit. Better stop it, I will order your arrest if you do it in a room... That is like smoking. You contaminate people.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I will ban it. The use and importation. You know why? Because it is toxic and government has the power to issue measures to protect public health and public interest.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Me? Will be impeached? I will jail them all, try to do it and I will do it. Son of a bitch.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I need China. More than anybody else at this point, I need China.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I will not plead or beg, but I'm just telling you that lay off the Pag-asa because I have soldiers there.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Let us be friends, but do not touch Pagasa Island and the rest, if you make moves there, Pagasa Island's Pagasa Island. I will tell my soldiers,' Prepare for suicide mission'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You are a Filipino who was allowed to abuse our country ... in the name of the holy grail of press freedom, you are not only throwing toilet paper, you are throwing shit at us.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They said there are many rape cases in Davao, as long as there are many beautiful women, there will be more rape cases.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I will sell my soul to the devil to look for money so that you can come home and live comfortably here.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Remember that there is a division between church and state. You can criticize anything at all— from the garbage collector to generals and even to vice president and senator, but never, never use the name of God as a front to attack government because that is not the proper way to do it. There is a separation of state and church. Do not use God to attack me. That is not proper and I’m sure that is not what God wants.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You have proven time and again that you are not just a public servant, but one of the greatest boxers of all time.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Tell the soldiers, ‘ There’s a new order coming from the mayor,' we wo n’t kill you. We will just shoot your vagina. ’.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
These white people, those from [the European Union], the ignorant Americans, pretending to be, this Obama, you are so black and arrogant. [He] reprimanded me. Why you reprimand me? I’m the president of a country.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
At the age of 16, I already killed someone. A real person, a rumble, a stabbing, i was just 16 years old. It was just over a look. How much more now that I am president.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I spent 10 million [pesos]? Me? Maybe in the election…They were all during the campaign.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Regular Jobs Now. Duterte reiterated his plea for Congress to re-impose the death penalty for drug offenders and other criminals, and said he would not stop his deadly crackdown on illegal drugs. The fight will not stop until those who deal in (drugs) understand that they have to stop because the alternatives are either jail or hell, he said. PHILIPPINES CANCELS TALKS WITH COMMUNIST REBELS AMID ATTACKS Duterte also addressed the United States in his speech by demanding America give back three church bells that were seized more than a century ago in the Philippine village of Balangiga. Give us back those Balangiga bells…They are part of our national heritage ... return it to us, this is painful for us.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I cannot make any definite promise. I am supposed to go to Russia; I am supposed to go to Israel.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We know that we are playing with somebody who relishes in letting go his missiles. I would not want to go into his mind because I really don't know what is inside. But he is putting Mother Earth, the planet, on the edge.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Everybody suffers, only because two nations are playing with their dangerous toys. It behooves a certain America, because it is the more responsible country. I'm sure President Trump by now must also be cautioning his military to just maybe hang on and not to start something they cannot control.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He was wishing me success in my campaign against the drug problem, he understood the way we are handling it and he said there is nothing wrong with protecting your country.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I can eat you, just give me salt and vinegar. True. Make me mad. Get me a terrorist.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's like we're all competing to take these islands. And what's ours now at least, let's take it and make a strong point there that this is ours.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We tried to be friends with everybody but we have to maintain our jurisdiction now, at least the areas under our control. And I have ordered the armed forces to occupy all these.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Even those, those vacant (islands) that are considered ours, let's live there, it's like we're all competing to take these islands. And what's ours now at least, let's take it and make a strong point there that this is ours.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The (rifles) that were ordered already. I am ordering the police to cancel it. We’ll just have to look for another source that is cheaper and maybe as durable and as good.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
That could be true, some police officers are shifting from drug protectors to drug punishers.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have this pact with the West, but I want everybody to know that we will be charting a course of our own.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you want joint ventures, fine, we can get the gas and the oil.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They would want a multilateral roundtable discussion, probably this year, i do not think anyone is interested in going to war. Although we are allies with America, we will agree to, say, multilateral participation.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I would say to China, 'do not claim anything here and I will not insist also that it is ours'. But then I will just keep (turn) a blind eye, if you want joint ventures, fine, we can get the gas and the oil.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I will issue 1,000 pardons a day, pardon given to Rodrigo Duterte for the crime of multiple murder, signed Rodrigo Duterte.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If everyone sits on their ass, we'll let criminals have their way.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I will not let drugs and criminality destroy my country, I simply cannot accept that, if everyone sits on their ass, we'll let criminals have their way.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you are from Mindanao, there are explosions here and there and if that happens nationwide, I will not be caught with my pants down, i will use the military and police ... because I have to keep our country safe, secure, peaceful.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I will not allow the government to wage war against its own people.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I said terrorism will grow and grow and grow and it would be a national threat in the coming days, maybe earlier than later.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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