"A lawyer boasting about the ability to debate is like a sprinter boasting he could walk." ~Darwin Cañete
"Critics complain about the cure but stay silent on the sickness." ~Darwin Cañete
"Far and above his authority as president, are the personal ties the president has with the stakeholders in Mindanao. Most analysts miss the fact that various factions can rely on the president's word of honor. He places his word and will over and above the limitations of his office. That is leadership." ~Darwin Canete,
"Freedom of speech is a defense against the government. It is not an immunity from the consequences of that speech from people you offend." ~Darwin Cañete
"I always believed that the reason why big media hates Duterte is that his win empirically proved that buying political advertisements and currying favorable coverage from their oligarch owners for purposes of election no longer matters. They stand revealed to be a big waste. That is why Duterte is a threat. Not EJK. Not the war on drugs. Duterte represents the growing irrelevance of big media and the degraded ability of oligarchs to dictate on the national agenda." ~Darwin Cañete, April 2, 2017
"I believe it is also our duty as government officials to express support for the democratically elected president of our country. And to defend him as head of state." ~Darwin Cañete, October 4, 2017
"I consider the opposition my moral compass. Their opposite is always right." ~Darwin Cañete
"I wake up every morning expecting the world to be cruel and unfair. " ~Darwin Cañete
"Is refusing to renew the franchise of ABS CBN an abridgement of freedom of speech? No. The personnel of ABS CBN can still write and speak freely. You have to distinguish between ABS CBN itself as a juridical person and the persons who work for it. As far as I know, the live persons are not stopped from speaking their minds. Remember THAT WE OWN, collectively as a Republic, the frequency and airwaves that ABS CBN uses to spew its intrigues towards the duly elected government. They make money off what we own. We should not be held hostage by the machinations of oligarchs through their stranglehold of mass media." ~Darwin Cañete, April 28, 2017
"Let's be candid. Both China and the Middle East are impressed with strength. FVP dealing with these ancient and powerful cultures would have been comedic. We are lucky that PRRD is the one dealing with them and not some brainless pa-cute social climber." ~Darwin Cañete, April 16, 2017
"Sa manlulupig di ka pasisiil."
'Never shall invaders trample thy sacred shores.'
That is our anthem. No foreign court should ever be given the power to tell us what to do in our own country. That is an absolute fucking (sic) non-negotiable principle for any true patriot. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a traitor." ~Darwin Cañete, March 18, 2018
"Supporting the duly constituted government is our fundamental duty to the Republic and the Constitution." ~Darwin Cañete, April 1, 2017
"The best trial lawyers I ever saw were not debaters. They were readers. They were questioners. They were writers. They did not rely on tricks of language but on depth of knowledge on the issues they were litigating." ~Darwin Cañete
"The Opposition cannot come up with alternatives to PRRD's solutions because there is none that is expedient, addresses the problem, and based on realistic options. They are stuck in the fantasy that motherhood statements are enough. Deep down, they want to be the ones to take the same path, but lacked the will and spine to embrace it. The Opposition at heart, are cowards. They are unable to face the fact that the price needed to fix this country is to cross through an ocean of blood and sacrifice." ~Darwin Cañete, June 4, 2019
"The price of admission in democracy is citizenship. One of the responsibilities of citizenship is paying correct taxes." ~Darwin Cañete
"Think of Duterte as Durian. Strong aroma, a prickly fruit...but damn, a taste of heaven." ~Darwin Canete, 7 April 2016
"You cannot buy our politicians. But they rent surprisingly cheap." ~Darwin Cañete
"You know the worst fear of the yellows is? That President Duterte will prove that you can run a government without the pomp, the frills and the pablum of superficial appearances and ceremony.....that from now on, the humble, straight talking man without the backing of a transactional oligarchy WILL henceforth be...the standard by which his successors will be measured." ~Darwin Cañete
"You do not confuse rigid orthodoxy as foreign policy. Duterte has ONE CENTRAL FOREIGN POLICY...the welfare, safety and security of our islands and its people. Any day that we are not at odds with a foreign power and that our citizens are not discriminated against for being Filipinos is a triumph of that policy. If you think that this is incoherence, confusion or absence of foreign policy because it does not conform to a pro-American orthodoxy, then you're even more of an idiot than i thought." ~Darwin Cañete, April 9, 2017
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