Quotes from Rodrigo Duterte

Rich people are afraid to die.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

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.

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.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

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.

To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

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.

Fate has many faces.

My worry is how to protect the Filipino.

Whoever said I hated the media?

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Freedom of expression is very important.

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

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.

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.

Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.