“I would rather lose the election than lose my identity.”

— Rodrigo Duterte

In an interview with Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/04/rodrigo-duterte-dirty-harry-philippine-politics-160410072246097.html (April 2016)

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