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Portrait of Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Duterte Speech During a Wake Visit To Killed-In-Action Soldiers (2016)

We've been at war for almost 45 years. That's why I'm pleading to everybody including the Communist Party of the Philippines to continue with the peace talks. I have kept my silence despite the ranting of Sison. Hindi na ako... kasi kung mayor lang ako pwede – pwede talaga – but then I carry the burden of a nation and so I just have to control my mouth. But this cannot go on. This crazy thing about just the landmine, ito nag-buk iyong mukha nawala na.
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Portrait of Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Duterte Speech During a Wake Visit To Killed-In-Action Soldiers (2016)

Now there are things that are really reaching crisis and it's not even epidemic – kayo, Carol – it's pandemic.
You know, two years ago sabi ng PDEA three million addicts. Noon iyon – two, three years ago – I remember. Sabi nila 92% of the barangays in the Metro Manila are contaminated with drug use. Noong mayor ako, ako iyong binubugbog ng human rights issue. Hindi ako nakinig sa inyo, kasi may trabaho ako. At alam ko talagang nagka... it was really spreading like wildfire. And I was scared for my country kasi Filipino ako. Ngayon Presidente ako, I have to worry sa lahat ng mga anak ninyo.
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Portrait of Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Duterte Speech During a Wake Visit To Killed-In-Action Soldiers (2016)

Ngayon, itong mga NGO, you've been repeating this kind of sloganeering that, you know, drug addiction is a disease, is an ailment. Sakit iyan, hindi natin patayin. Dapat igamot. Okay. Saan bang opisina ninyo? Itong 600,000 ibigay ko sa inyo bukas. Sabihin ko doon sa mga iyon i-deliver ninyo iyan. Sino yan, iyang NGO? Hala, sige, ipagamot mo. Sabi mo sakit iyan. Sige, bigay mo. Kayo na ang bahala.
Human rights? United Nations? Come here.
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