Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

It Takes A Village

If the American people are going to support a policy than they had better be made to understand the rationale.

'Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.

The first and most important advice that I can give to my successors and people to make Afghanistan into a great kingdom is to impress upon their minds the value of unity; unity, and unity alone, can make it into a great power.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

... the even more fundamental task that lies before the leader of a democracy is to bring to the people the realization that true democracy is the effort of the people individually to carry their share of the burden of government.

A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

What we need to do is to come together as a people and solve the problems facing our country. And unfortunately, Washington is just not doing enough of that these days.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.