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Rodrigo Duterte [1945-0] Filipino

Rank: 102
Statesman, President of the Philippines

Rodrigo "Rody" Roa Duterte, also known as Digong, is a Filipino politician and jurist who is the 16th and current President of the Philippines, and Chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for 2017.

Friendship, Legal, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you're a public official, your life is an open book.		101
Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.		102
Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.	Trust	103
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.		104
Gamble until you die. I do not really care.		105
Lawyers are for only what is right.		106
You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.		107
Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.		108
I am just an ordinary man.		109
I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.		110
I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.		111
No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.		112
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.	Legal	113
Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished - these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines.		114
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.	Friendship	115
I need to control my mouth.		116
I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.		117
I would rather die early than enter Malacanang.		118
Freedom of expression is very important.		119
I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.		120
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.		121
Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.		122
Rich people are afraid to die.		123
I just want everybody to follow the law.		124
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.	Friendship	125
I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.		126
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.		201
If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.		202
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.		203
Sometimes, my mouth can get the better of me.		204
I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.		205
I will flight for the people until my last breath.		206
I don't want anyone controlling me.		207
My worry is how to protect the Filipino.		208
I don't care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.		209
I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin.		210
I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.		211
I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.		212
Whoever said I hated the media?		213
It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.		214
Steel is needed everywhere.		215
I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.		216
I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.		217
You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.		218
Even money has a price.		219
I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.		220
I am well. Do not worry about my health.		221
I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.		222
The state must protect the media. In a democracy, the role of media is very important. In the absence of a credible opposition party, you can rely on the media.		223
What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.		224
I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.		225
I've always hated oppression.		226
The only reason there is peace and order in Davao is because of me.		301
From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.		302
Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.		303
I am a lawyer and 22 years the mayor of Davao City. I served as congressman of the first district for one term, and I was vice mayor to my daughter, Inday.		304
Fate has many faces.		305
For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.		306

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