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Rodrigo Duterte

Rodrigo Roa Duterte is a Filipino politician and the current Mayor of Davao City in the Philippines.

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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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

Me? Will be impeached? I will jail them all, try to do it and I will do it. Son of a bitch.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I can not understand why they are making us a dump site.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

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'.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 1 year ago World

I will not plead or beg, but I'm just telling you that lay off the Pag-asa because I have soldiers there.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 1 year ago World

I need China. More than anybody else at this point, I need China.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 1 year ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

They said there are many rape cases in Davao, as long as there are many beautiful women, there will be more rape cases.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 2 years ago World

I will sell my soul to the devil to look for money so that you can come home and live comfortably here.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 2 years ago World

You have proven time and again that you are not just a public servant, but one of the greatest boxers of all time.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Sports

I don't care, it does not interest me at all.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 2 years ago World

Tell the soldiers, ‘ There’s a new order coming from the mayor,' we wo n’t kill you. We will just shoot your vagina. ’.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

I spent 10 million [pesos]? Me? Maybe in the election…They were all during the campaign.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

I cannot make any definite promise. I am supposed to go to Russia; I am supposed to go to Israel.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I can eat you, just give me salt and vinegar. True. Make me mad. Get me a terrorist.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

That could be true, some police officers are shifting from drug protectors to drug punishers.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

When you kill someone, rape, you should die.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We have this pact with the West, but I want everybody to know that we will be charting a course of our own.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

If you want joint ventures, fine, we can get the gas and the oil.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

I will issue 1,000 pardons a day, pardon given to Rodrigo Duterte for the crime of multiple murder, signed Rodrigo Duterte.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

If everyone sits on their ass, we'll let criminals have their way.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

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.

– Rodrigo Duterte