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For every transaction, a commission; for every action, extortion; and a request that goes on and on — endlessly and shamelessly. Catharsis is what we, individually and collectively, need to do today — not tomorrow but today.

Let me ask you: When will corruption end? Hanggang kailan? I am not singling out myself. Corruption exasperates. It frustrates. It is also exasperating that there are times when I think that perhaps it is blood that we need to cleanse and rinse away the dirt and the muck that stick to the flesh like leeches.

Of course, it is only a thought. I am simply thinking aloud. To dispel any controversy that my statements in this regard will create something else. I use similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and other figures of speech every now and then, to prove or stress a point. I am as human as anybody else. On the matter of the Philippine — West Philippine Sea. The avoidance of conflict — armed conflict and protection of our territorial waters and natural resources compel us to perform a delicate balancing act.

A shooting war is grief and misery multiplier. War leaves widows and orphans in its wake. I am not ready or inclined to accept the occurrence of more destruction, more widows and more orphans, should war, even on a limited scale, breaks out.

More and better results can be reached in the privacy of a conference room than in a squabble in public. That is why I will do in the peaceful way, mindful of the fact that it is our national pride and territorial integrity that are at stake.

Short of expressly advocating a call to arms, there are those who say that we should stand up and stop those who fish in our economic zone. Of course we will do in due time. There is…. Noong — when I became President and when the M16 rifles were cancelled by America upon the prodding of the US Congress, I found myself in a quandary because reports were already very ripe na there was the passing of arms in Marawi.

And because of the arms were already — mostly in the hands of the police, hands-me-down from the army were quite old and sometimes the bolt that pushes the bullet flies out and the barrel has really become lose, and there are no more launch and planes to push it into a circular trajectory to maintain its accuracy.

So I was forced to go to China. Then in China, we had a bilateral. Do you think, rather than go there and have a confrontation — not necessarily the grey ships, war ships. But you know a squabble there could lead to something else. And perhaps we can talk about this. If the trouble comes out from the mouth of a president of a republic, anong magawa ko?

So what did I answer? We cannot you know, have our cake and eat it too. You know, I cannot go there even to bring the Coast Guard to drive them away.

China also claims the property and he is in possession. We are claiming the same but we are not in the position because of that fiasco noong dalawang nag-standoff doon during the time of my predecessor si Albert, ambassador. I do not know his real name.

Tayo ang umatras. Pagsabi niya umatras, that was a kind of a compromise. Noong umatras tayo, pumasok sila. Marami na. That day, we lost the Spratly and the Panganiban Island. Iyan ang totoo. Ngayon, may arbitral ruling. I… I said, I could not even ask for the oil claiming the entire resources of the….

Anong sabihin ko sa kanila? Pero hindi tayo in control of the property. It was just nabanggan, wala naman. So they wanted to talk, tapos ayaw dito.

Ganun lang. I guarantee you, not one of them will come home alive. And the fastest that they have installed there can reach Manila in seven minutes. You want war?

Umalis ka diyan. Kung ganunan lang, bright ako diyan. Hanggang bunganga lang. Pero kung bunutan na ng baril, ah pwede siguro basta dalawa lang. We do it in a confrontation doon. We try to drive them away, it could lead to a violence. It is in that arbitral ruling. Ayaw lang ninyong gustong tignan. It is mentioned there that even before countries were in existence, people around an ocean or a lake had already been fishing there for generations.

That treaty is also a part of our land because we are a signatory. You might just…. China and everybody recognizes traditional fishing rights for the natives who were there even before the creation of republics and governments. That law is a humane law. My God, I… You want me to stop? We can go home now. Do not believe the others because they are not my friends.

They are my political enemies. They said I do not believe in God. Who says? I am a believer of a universal mind there.

But [applause] I do not believe that a God so perfect would create hell for his creation. What kind of God is he? He is not my God. There is a time to — for everything. A time to negotiate and a time to quarrel with your enemy, with your political opponents or with your wife. That is why some lives here are… And a time to antagonize and a time to make peace and a time to go to war, and a time to live and a time to die.

Our ownership of the Philippine — West Philippine Sea is internationally recognized. The arbitral ruling even states, the one that they are charging me for violating the Constitution….

Suntukin lang kita diyan ngayon mabuti pa. Nandito eh. The arbitral ruling even states that the Philippines may enter into fishing agreements with other states, provided certain conditions and requisites in the UNCLOS are met. I think it was Adam who got the first Lapu-Lapu there. Let me assure you, that national honor and territorial integrity shall not — shall be foremost in our mind, and when we may take the next steps in this. There is no ifs and buts. It is ours. But we have been acting, [applause] along that legal truth and line.

But we have to temper it with the times and the realities that we face today. Poverty incidence fell from The most important number, though, is the six million Filipinos we need to pull out from poverty. Kindly help me on this. And you know, as I said, corruption is everywhere.

You are free to investigate. If there is anything wrong in my department, the Executive, you are free to open the investigation anytime. You do not have to call me. Call the idiots, expose them, and send them to jail.

You are helping me. I know how it works. Feel free. Feel free to expose anything that is not in accordance with law. We have pursued tax reforms to fund our poverty reduction programs. I therefore believe that it is now time for Congress to approve a new version of the Salary Standardization Law. Ngayon na. Hindi naman masyadong malaki, pero it will tide you over during these hard times. A little bit bigger than before. Nurses, correct. Sinong naninigarilyo dito?

They should be exterminated from the face of the earth. But I made it a national policy because you know when I was new mayor, I went around to see the discos and night clubs. I could hardly see the faces of the people inside. You have to wade into a thick smoke to just recognizeone. But I was still smoking. But I decided because I knew, I already had it. I am not trying to pull a chair here.

When that boxing mayor there became mayor, she reduced it to six. Walang order, no orders in advance. Kasi we have ordered already, so you can close but we have to drink.

Itong ngayon, at 12, everything closes down. Nobody works. So I… I think that we should adopt it. Most of the states, in many states, in many countries, ganun man. Alas dose, sarado na talaga. We have to stop drinking. There was applause, too, when Duterte joked about needing to go to the restroom for a pee right before he concluded the lengthiest SONA in the last three decades.

A Twitter user even managed to make a copy of the moment Duterte mentioned it. Others wondered if the members of the audience were really listening to him or merely following cues to clap. Do not try to test my resolve. Absolutely I have nothing to lose except my life.

While we can control the acts of man, no one can control [or] stop the fury and rampage of weather gone wild. When nature fights back, it does so with a vengeance. We have seen the terrible toll that Super typhoon Yolanda and the succeeding typhoons exacted in terms of human life and property.

And we still have to recover from the beating that we got both during and in the aftermath of those mega-typhoons. The series of damaging quakes in Leyte, Surigao and nearby provinces and islands attest to this. Come to think of it really, they say that there is no perfect instrument or human acumen can really predict earthquake.

I hope it will not come. I am calling [on] both houses of Congress to expeditiously craft a law establishing a new authority or department that is responsive to the prevailing 21st century conditions and empowered to best deliver [an] enhanced disaster resiliency and quick disaster response. Disaster resiliency of Metro Manila and the surrounding provinces is a matter of urgent [national ] concern. Kung… Kaya kaya ito sa isang sinkhole? I mean if it cracks and it goes down, can we still manage to go up?

God, huwag ngayon ha kay nandito ako. I am directing the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management to immediately work hand in hand with the concerned LGUs, the private sector and the affected communities themselves, in undertaking disaster [resiliency] measures, antidotes. We all need to act fast. With all the foregoing said, what then is the state of the nation today?

I will mince no words and neither will I window-dress the situation [that] we are in. Let me answer in two brief sentences. We are in — for trouble — because we live in troubled and uncertain times. And I fear that things might get worse before they become better. But like I said I hope we will cope, we hope and pray. On the other hand, despite our recent gains in improving the peace and order situation in the country, there is still so much to be desired and if we are to completely eradicate the menace of illegal drugs, criminality and corruption, we must do it.

I therefore ask Congress to act on all pending legislations to reimpose the death penalty on heinous crimes — especially on the trafficking of illegal drugs. There is a shortage… No, no, no. There is a short clip of CNN about people in Massachusetts, was it there?

Iyong clip nila ang ipinakita. Nakaganun lang sila tapos po-pose ng ano… And they are aplenty there. They do not work, wala. Tapos sabi ng UN… Is he here? Are you there iyong UN representative? Na sinabi mo na shabu will not affect the brain? Are you here? Do not worry.

Then you trivialize it with human rights and due process. Okay ako niyan. But with so many killings as brutal and as cruel as what happened, if you add human rights and due process, you stink and your mouth smells. If you want to criticize, criticize, condemn the act, stop there. When you criticize, stick on one topic. Then you find an event where you can talk about human rights and due process, but do not talk about it in the same time when there is a carnage and you begin to blabber, talk about human rights.

Lalong nagagalit ang tao. May namatay na diyan, akala mo kung sino ka. Seventy-seven — you have the records. You can summon the police. Seventy- seven before I became president.

All drug- related, 77, I challenge you, you want a debate in public? You all know, you were all here. You conducted the investigation. You heard the witnesses. You saw the videos. Is she a credible woman? Can she be a moral person? When you talk about an incident, talk about it, then condemn, condemn the police.

But do not connect it with due process and human rights. You know why I get this rating? I could not be brighter than you and my work is not more important or your vocation is not less than mine. But when you talk in public carry the proper message. Kaya mag kayo or kaya binobombahan niyo kasi ako ng ganun. Saan ba ang utak ninyo? Bakit kayo bilib diyan sa puti? Akala mo kung sino. Akala nila mas bright pa sila sa akin. Then the staff of the President, then Obama.

Parang electric fan. Tapos kayong mga — bilib kayo. Hindi ko talaga maintindihan ang Pilipino. Alam mo kasi in this country it is a rule of majority. I did it for the 50 plus one because in a vote of , I get 51, 50 plus one. Fifty is one-half, one, that is majority of one, I win.

But when the time comes, eh kung malasin. I can take it. Labas-pasok na ako sa presuhan. Sabi ko nga, everybody is entitled to come here and question me, but I have to question you also.

At para magaling, let us make it official. We go to court and we tell the judge that we are hearing by an international body, can we have it judicially recorded?

And I will place them under oath. When I was mayor, a little over… For 23 years ako mayor ng Davao eh. Makita mo ang Davao ngayon, you have been LGUs before.

What city is now hitting nine growth percent? Eh nandoon pa kami sa Mindanao, binobomba pa kami sa Davao. Davao is nine growth. Kindly… For so long… We have to act decisively on this contentious issue. Capital punishment is not only about deterrence. It is also about retribution. Make no mistake about that. Iba kasi ako eh. Let us understand each other including the international community. Ang aming — our criminal system uses the Revised Penal Code. That is a law that was given to us by the Spaniards, the original Revised Penal Code.

Though it was translated into English and in this two books, three books, there are the definition of crimes and the penalties and everything. And the thrust of that Revised Penal Code, ladies and gentlemen, is the essence of retribution.

That is why you have penalties. When he goes out, he rapes again, kidnaps another girl and makes her a hostage for so many years. Ganun kayo eh. Admit it, ganun kayo.

And many at times, there were sex offenders in America released only to rape and kidnap again and kill in just a few months after release. In the Philippines, it is really an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. You took a life then you must pay for life.

That is the only way to even. You cannot place a premium on the human mind that he will go straight. Nobody can. Not even your best scientist. No one has ever fathomed how a person would react especially in committing crimes. What does it say? Even during elections, there is a time to be great and a time for defeat.

A time to be in the skies, emblazoned there and a time to be [inaudible] somebody. A time to have money, a time to be hard up. A time to just walk so many kilometers. This bully, you know I had dinner with them sa Bayan.

I was crossing the ideological borders before. But times have changed because God placed me here and I take care of a Republic. Talagang bully ako especially to the enemies of the state, talagang bully ako. Which is correct? If you have to shoot them, shoot them at the heart or the head. Because they will be detained here in Marawi, wala tayong presuhan. How many jail — [anong tawag dito?

Because you do not publish. Or itong mga taga-Maynila… Hindi kayo, mga bright kayo, bilib ako. What happened last April in Davao? It was bombed. How many were killed?

Few years ago, the church was bombed twice. How many died? The airport just as the people were coming out of the departure — ah arrival — it was bombed. In the war, three nuns were lining up there. I had to scoop the brain of the nun to put it in a can because the face was shattered.

And you say that the violation is only in Marawi? Talaga kayong… Mag-usap tayo ngayon. Dalhin ko kayo doon sa mga biyuda. Walang sinasanto doon. Hindi lang ninyo binabasa nang husto. Pareho tayong Maranao, so just shut up. Huwag kayong ma… Ito ang totoo. Maraming Muslim sa Mindanao. Lahat… Eh sa Abra, meron eh. In this fight… Well, where do you think the Moro would side? Kung patayan na. They will side with government? Kung ako ngayon, kung nakatira ako, hindi kami umalis ng — hindi ako dinala ng nanay ko sa labas.

Sumobra itong Left eh. Maggawa ka ng bahay — nakawin. I will just build yours. Ibigay mo na lang. May project ngayon, gusto na naman nilang kuhanin. Do not commit that mistake. Here and now, I will tell you, including the Congress of the Republic of the Philippines: You do anarchy, I will order the soldiers and the police to shoot. Even if I have to bury thousand of Filipinos. Huwag ninyo akong ganunin.

We enforce the laws against the miners and the rich, but I will also enforce laws against anarchy, disturbance, and create trouble. Kayo rin, natatakot din eh.

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