Political Quotes

Rodrigo Duterte

The Public Record

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022 (born 1945)

Quotes by year · 2016–20256 total · peak 2025 (3)
2016: 2 quotes2018: 1 quote2025: 3 quotes
Mar 10, 2025

You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because as the mayor, I’d kill you.

cnn.com
Mar 10, 2025

What is the law and what is the crime that I committed?

cnn.com
Sep 26, 2018

My only sin is the extrajudicial killings.

truthout.org
Sep 4, 2016

I am the president of a sovereign state. And we have long ceased to be a colony. I do not have any master except the Filipino people.

thenation.com
Apr 30, 2016

Just because you’re a journalist, you are not exempted from assassination.

thenation.com