"A scholar once told me to have the courage to make bold predictions. Because with every bold prediction comes great mistakes, and with every great mistake comes great learning." ~Sass Rogando Sasot (2016: THE YEAR OF THE COME-FROM-BEHIND VICTORS, FB, 20 November 2016)
"... count your mistakes, they are your blessings in life." ~Sass Rogando Sasot, FB, 20 November 2016, 2016: THE YEAR OF THE COME-FROM-BEHIND VICTORS
"Freedom of speech comes with consequences. If you can't handle the consequences of your speech, then don't speak. But if you want to speak in public, grow a damn spine. That's not a false dilemma but reality." ~Sass Rogando Sasot
"I hope GMA 7 would take this opportunity to change the face of Philippine TV. It's time to have REALLY intelligent shows na would expose Filipinos to arts, culture, science and technology. With virtually no competition, you can now redefine the broadcast media landscape from one that cheapened their consciousness for about 50 years to one that would broaden their aesthetic, cultural, scientific, and technological horizons. You no longer have to compete at the level of kabit, kerengkeng, and kaumay na walang sense na dramarama. End of ABS-CBN is the birth of new era of PH TV. Make it an era that would enrich, widen, and elevate the consciousness of the masses." ~Sass Rogando Sasot, For The Motherland, July 10, 2020 (The End of abs-cb-end)
"... I realised that there are more important things than sounding like a statesman, like strategy, cunning, and political will." ~Sass Roganda Sasot, FB, 20 November 2016, 2016: THE YEAR OF THE COME-FROM-BEHIND VICTORS
"If there’s anything I would hope the future generation would become, it’s that they would have a more enlightened view of the world." ~Sass Rogando Sasot
"If you are going to lead a nation, your memory should be the memory of a nation. You shouldn't be president if you have an impoverished understanding of the history of your people. The history of our people didn't start from Martial Law and stayed there. Our history is more than that one episode. Duterte's historical awareness is impressive. Not perfect, but certainly much better than Aquino's. He went to China with an understanding of our bilateral history that goes beyond our conflict over rocks, islands, and a shoal. He knew that this conflict is nothing compared to hundreds of years of our people's good trade relations with China. By looking back, Duterte is fulfilling the lesson of the most well-known Tagalog proverb: ang hindi marunong lumingon sa kanyang pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan. The Rajah of Butuan, the Sultan of Sulu, the former mayor of Davao and now president of the Philippines are all from Mindanao, and they represent different periods in our bilateral relations with China since time immemorial." ~Sass Rogando Sasot (October 23, 2016)
"Most countries resort to charm before they harm." ~SRSasot, video lecture on Sovereignty, Security and Power, 29 December 2016
"Someone asked me what's the greatest accomplishment Duterte did in his first year. As a student of international relations, my answer is the moment Duterte fizzled out a major crisis in international order and stability at the risk of attracting the anger of his people who've been conditioned to fight China though the heavens may fall. If Duterte's foreign policy path would be continued to be traversed, then we would save future generations from the scourge of a devastating contest for power in the Pacific." ~Sass Rogando Sasot, For the Motherland, 4 July 2017 (Reposting what I wrote on the 16th of July 2016 regarding Yasay's face and James Blunt...)
"The enlightened future generation would judge Duterte not according to how clean his mouth but how he used power to shape events to prevent greater tragedies from happening to our country." ~Sass Rogando Sasot (Commentary: A Vulgar Politician
"The past presidents didn't do much to dismantle the machinery of narcopolitics in the Philippines. They were afraid of the blood, sweat, and tears that entail. So, they sort of tolerated it. The shabu trade flourished. That also means not doing anything to rehabilitate those suffering from drug addiction, as evidenced by the lack of rehabilitation centres. Duterte isn't afraid of the work needed to be done in order to dismantle narcopolitics in our country. He's not even afraid to die for this cause. This same seriousness is also reflected in his administration's efforts to build rehabilitation centres for drug addicts. Tunay na TAPANG at MALASAKIT." ~Sass Rogando Sasot, December 1, 2016
"What doesn't kill me will just make me stronger. Keep on breaking me, and I'll just keep on snapping back FOR THE MOTHERLAND!" ~Sass Rogando Sasot, February 23, 2017
"Without demonstrably satisfying any compelling public interest, Rappler and the leaker accomplished only one thing: thoroughly damage our government’s reputation concerning its ability to safeguard the confidentiality of high-level diplomatic communications. Other leaders will now surely hesitate to have frank conversations with our leaders. We cannot let Rappler and the leaker do this to our Republic." -Sass Sassot Rogando (May 2017)
"You don't let anyone fight your own war. Why? Because after each war, the spoils need to be divided among the parties - winners and losers. And just like during peace time: the strong do what they can, while the weak suffer what they must. No country will go to war for you and give you the bulk of the spoils of that war. No such thing as a free war." ~Sass Rogando Sasot, on Dividing the Spoils, FB, 29 October 2016
"You will fail because we will not let you fuck up the dream shared by many millions of Filipinos: A leader who has the political will to make our country a better place than it was, so that the next generation would have a better chance of flourishing in our motherland." ~Sass Rolando Sasot (slams Trillanes).
"Your friendship is more valuable than defending me. If they're furious at me, let them be. But don't let it ruin the friendship you've built all throughout these years." ~Sass Rogando Sasot
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