Quotes from President Rodrigo Duterte's State of the Nation Address 2020

The quotes were taken from Miss Krizette Laureta Chu page but the graphics are created by us Compiler Philippines

"Nananawagan po ako sa ating mga lessors, bayanihan po sana ang pairalin natin. This is not the time to drive away lessees. During normal times they were the source of your income. It's time for compassion. Wag natin silang ipagtabuyan. Commercial establishments are requested to allow grace periods. Let us help them recover."

"I enjoin banks to provide regulatory relief for SMEs, for loan relief for SMEs, without incurring charges. We need your help to prevent the collapse of companies saddled with amortization. As we embark on our effort of inclusive recovery...ito ang panahon para suportahan ang ating mga kababayan, na gumagawa ng produkto ng sariling atin. In the same manner, in the tourism industries, hardest hit, the LGUs must harmonize to boost tourism, ensuring everyone's wellbeing. We enjoin everyone to boost the economy by travelling locally. Once the necessary systems are in place."

"We must run after online scammers and those undermining people, we must protect the Filipino, and we must be responsible stewards of [digital]. I am committing to protect both physical and digital lives of our law abiding countrymen."

"Until the Covid-19 vaccine is available, I will not allow face to face teaching. I will not risk the lives of students and teachers." A few weeks ago, I said I will allow... but it is for January, thinking that we would have a vaccine in September. But acquiring it would be... challenging. Four days ago, I made a plea to President Xi Jinping, if they have the vaccine can we be the first to get it? So that we can normalize as fast as possible.

"TV frequencies will be reverted back to the government, and not to be used for dummies, to cope up with the demand, it will be used to give quality education to children as we shift.... Sec. Guevara, dela Pena, Honasan, and Briones, Domingues, to come up with an integrated program to make sure these TV frequencies, PTV 4, for the utmost benefit of the FIlipjno people. Allow me to be segue a little bit, for the remaining two years of the government, all that is good that belongs to the government, all the airways, they will belong to the government, and government should be given to first utilize it. Ang sobra, kanila. I call on comminication sevrices to improve their services or we will be forced to take on steps to address the service that the public is getting from you. Sometimes, we are pictured to be wea and incompetent, because we cannot impose our mandate. Wag nyo kami paantayin ng 10 taon to experience the services, that other countries experience. If it's just added capitalization, go and look for it. Maghanap kayo, if you are not ready to improve, I might just as well, close all of you. And revert back to the line telephone, at kukunin ko yan sa gobyerno. Itong Smart at itong Globe, ilang taon na ito. Kung ganon lang naman ibigay nyo sa amin, we are a republic sovereign country, because the patience of the Filipino people is reaching its limit, and I wll be the one to articulate the anger of the Filipino people, and you might not want what I'll do to you. Improve your services before December, I want to call Jesus Christ to Bethlehem, better have that line cleared."

"I have been a citizen of this country. for a long long time May pera kayo? use it. Wala kayong pera? Umalis kayo dito. You give us lousy service, and ang tao nagbabayad. Tell us now if you cannot improve on your service by December. I have two years, and the next two years will be spent improving the telecommunications of this country without you. I will find a way, I will talk to Congress and find a way."

"Martial Law in Mindanao ended without abuses by the civilian sector, without abuses by the police, without abuses by the military--because this time, I know, we know how to love our country."

"We will revive death penalty by lethal injection crimes under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. This law will not only help us deter criminality, but also save our children from the dangers posed by the illegal and dangerous drugs.”

"Do not do it (drugs) in my country, or I will really kill you. That is a commitment."

"Covid-19 is not the last pandemic, we need to create a (paraphrasing) department for the national health agency, national disease prevention to better prepare for a pandemic. We need the full support of the Congress in this critical endeavor. I leave it to Congress to create another department.... but it may be a multilayer, redundant thing like the Department of Health."

"We must modernize the Bureau of Fire Protection and Bureau of Immigration. In Davao, one of the fire trucks we have in the city, we have our own aside from the Bureau of Fire, ang pangalan ng truck Studebaker. Matatag talaga ang katawan, ang makina Isuzu, Bureau of Fire na overlook ng matagal."

"I am requesting congress to pass the P66 billion agricultural program to help agricultural and fishery industries to recover. (Paraphrasing) A few good men---a few good regional directors dedicated workers down below, we can do Plant Plant Plant program, mas madali ito kesa build build build."

ON THE WPS ISSUES: "Plenty of critics--both sides---have claimed that we have done nothing on [China]. Unless we are prepared to go to war, we need diplomatic endeavors. China is claiming it, we are claiming it. China has the arms, we do not have it. It is simple of that. They are in possession of the property. It's akin to... property rights, so what can we do? We have to go to war, and I cannot afford it. Maybe some other President can, but I cannot. Inutil ako dyan, and I am willing to admit it. Inutil ako dyan. Wala akong magawa. The moment I sent my Marines there in Palawan, wala pa, hindi pa nga nakaka.... tinamaan agad ng cruise missiles. Sabog na."

ON HIS COVID-19 RESPONSE "I know we have many shortcomings in addressing Covid-19 challenges, I know that but we are trying our best, and I promise you that we in government will not stop until we are able to perfect the process. We will keep trying." (rephrasing.)

"This is the time to bring out the best of us. We will bend our back, but not our spirit. From the rubbles of adversity, we build a nation from bayanihan and pagkakaisa."

DRILLING DRILON... AND THE REAL OLIGARCHY "Id like to ask Drilon were you a part of ACCRA Law when this contract with Ayala for water...? And why are you fumigating--bakit ikaw lang ang galit--dynasty dynasty. You are a hypocrite, you cannot pass an anti-Dynasty law, ikaw ang nandyan sa Congress,, ikaw mauna dito. To take it against me, for protecting my country, is something I really resent. You describe using the dictionary, synonym, and then you proceeded to characterize every one, and you say, oligarchy is not bad at all because not all oligarchies are bad. True, but to my countrymen but the oligarchy that exists in this country is the oligarchy that existed in Spanish times, and the lands, benefits to pass on on the insulares, who did not go back. "This is the oligarchy that controls the Philippines by taking control of the water and electricity by power. YAN ANG OLIGARCHY MO, DRILON. How can you not... in I insist that you pay the billions of billions you collected. In 1997, ilang bilyon, pero wala ni isa, not even a faucet was built for a water treatment facility. Yan nag mahirap sayo, you protect the oligarchy, and I suspect you helped, when you were in ACCRA. Ang mga abogado sa public documents, naka graduate ba o hindi. Would you think Ayala would get their services? Ayala got ACCRA, ACCRA did it. Ikaw galing ka doon. "