EAR-CATCHERS
The admission
"Nagnakaw ba ako diyan ng piso? Ang kasalanan ko lang, yung mga extrajudicial killings."
-- President Duterte, Sept. 27
The day- after spin
"Alam mo naman si Presidente. Hindi naman iyan seryoso. He is not serious about it... He is just highlighting that he had never, ever stolen the people's money -that he may have been criticized for EJKs but he cannot be faulted for stealing people's money."
-- President's spokesman Harry Roque, Sept. 28
"Apart from the assault itself, these last couple of weeks have been the hardest of my life. I have had to relieve my trauma in front of the entire world."
Christine Blasey Ford, before the US Senate committee
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD, the professor who accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party in the 1980s, testified before the US Senate judiciary committee. Kavanaugh is President Trump's nominee for a seat in the federal Supreme Court. Ford is hailed for her being courageous and forthright in her testimony.
Joel and Ethan Coen [the brothers who produced the movie ‘Miller's Crossing'] on Kavanaugh's tears: ‘I'd just squirt a few and then you'd let me go again.”
Stephen King, best-selling author who in a tweet asked who has “more motivation for lying: the professor who has had her life turned upside down or the judge who stands to land a lifetime job at a quarter-mill a year plus benefits”
"I volunteered to run almost eight years ago. Circumstances then prodded me. Those circumstances are not present anymore. And I don't have any political ambitions."
Third-termer Councilor Margot Osmeña of Cebu City south, Sept. 24, 2018