Duterte to Gordon: I can’t be silent

President Rodrigo Duterte shrugged off the advice of Sen. Richard “Dick” Gordon to shut up to stop making controversial statements.

“No, I will not stop. I will lose the momentum. And I cannot afford it because I am the President. The momentum has to be there and it will be there for six years until the last pusher is taken out of the streets. I cannot just play silent,” the President said in a speech during the Third Sulong Pilipinas Convention at Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City.