Duterte Quotes

“We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.”
― Rodrigo Duterte

“What is Build, Build, Build? It is a revolution of Filipinos who want the next generation to see a better Philippines.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“Our critics were correct — it would have been impossible for us to implement Build, Build, Build alone. We knew it from the start. If not for the help of the 6.5 million Filipinos who willingly took part of the shared vision of creating a more comfortable life for all, big ticket projects would remain in the pipeline.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“It was easy, one village captain told me, to identify a drug addict. It was "the aura" that gave it away. "I can tell from the eyes.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

“To effectively usher in the Golden Age of Infrastructure, the Duterte Administration created Build, Build, Build, a medium-term development strategy, which aimed to mobilize the largest work force in Philippine history to implement an infrastructure plan consistent with the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“As a student, I dreamed of a nation without roadblocks. I didn’t realize that 10 years after, I’d be part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Build, Build, Build team. And since July 2016, according to Secretary Mark Villar, DPWH has completed 29,264 kilometers of roads, and 5,950 bridges.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“As early as 2016, when the Duterte administration launched the Build, Build, Build program, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar instituted key reforms in the right-of-way processes, including the issuance of an administrative order creating Right-of-Way Task Forces for each of the projects being implemented. He also decentralized the ROW acquisition functions and delegated the duties and responsibilities to various implementing units. Prior to this, regional offices were not capacitated with their own right-of-way divisions and were dependent only on legal support provided by the Central Office.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“Critics of the administration recently pointed out that over 180,000 families will be displaced in Metro Manila should the NLEX-SLEX Connector Road Project and the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) Project push through. This claim is fictitious, inaccurate, and misleading.

For example, based on the census and tagging conducted by the National Housing Authority, the government agency mandated to relocate and resettle Informal Settler Families (ISFs) affected by the construction of national infrastructure projects, the estimated number of likely affected ISFs in the NLEX – SLEX Connector Road Project is only 1,700.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte embarked to build the Luzon Spine Expressway Network, a 1,101-kilometer expressway network, which would connect the northernmost and southernmost parts of Luzon.

By building a 655-kilometer expressway network, Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar aims to complement the existing expressway grid spanning 385 kilometers. The goal is to increase the road network by threefold.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“Critics have said that the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte should shy away from Build, Build, Build if it were to solve the COVID-19 pandemic. I disagree. The government must not choose between health and economy but rather make mutual compromises that would further health, recovery, job security, and long-term economic potential.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“If the Constitution can no longer be invoked to protect our freedom of speech and expression, then we are no longer governed by law but by tyranny.”
― Cesar Nikko Caharian III