Voters will be looking to Duterte to fix the country's infrastructure, create jobs and lift more than a quarter...

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  "I believe in retribution. Why? You should pay. When you kill someone, rape, you should die," he said.

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"We will be charting a course of our own."

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"If you are doing an illegal activity... you are a legitimate target of assassination," Duterte said in 2009.

"Burying him at the (cemetery) will whitewash all crimes he committed against the people."

  "I'm a realist so we have to do something with our overpopulation."