The most insane quotes from Pilippines president Rodrigo Duterte after he admitted killing criminals himself

PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor - to set an example to local police.

Speaking at the presidential palace, he said: "In Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys (police) that, if I can do it, why can't you?"

It is just the latest in a series of bizarre and angry outbursts the bloodthirsty leader, 71, has spat out since launching his brutal war on drug dealers which has claimed nearly 6,000 lives.

Here are just a few of the jaw-dropping statements the politician has made:

"Human rights (defenders) say that I kill. I said: 'Okay, let us stop and let them (criminals) multiply.

"So when harvest time comes, here will be more who will die. I will include you in that because you let them multiply."

Criticism of the killings has sparked anger and protests in the Philippines among people horrified about the extrajudicial killings by cops and vigilantes, which have claimed innocent lives.

Presidential spokesman Martin Andanar tried to play down the statement, which was made last month.

He said: "The president did not mean he would do that,' he said.

"It was just frustration he expressed through language.

"You know that is how the president talks."

“F*** you, UN, you can’t even solve the Middle East carnage . . . couldn’t lift a finger in Africa (with the) butchering (of) the black people. Shut up, all of you.”

Not long after he was elected Duterte launched this bizarre rant at the UN. Two months later two United Nations human rights experts urged the Government to end the wave of extrajudicial executions and killings, stressing that drug charges should be “judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets.”

In October he said: “Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now, there is three million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

While Hitler's victims were innocent people, Duterte said his targets were "all criminals" and that getting rid of them would "finish the [drug] problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition".

“These sons of whores are destroying our children . . . if you know any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself.”

“I assure you you won’t go bankrupt (if you set up a funeral parlour). If your business slows, I will tell the police, ‘Do it faster’.”

Directly after taking power, Duterte went to a Manila slum and encouraged locals to take the law into their own hands and murder those linked to drugs.

"In this venue, I announce my separation from the United States. America has lost. I've realigned myself in your (Chinese) ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to (President Vladimir) Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia.

"It's the only way."

The Phillipines has been an ally of the US for decades, but the motormouth politician appeared to signal an end to the relationship in a meeting with Chinese businessmen in October.

Once again it was left to his spokesman to soothe ruffled feathers. "Let us not be too literal," he said.

"You've seen the way he speaks, so in other words watch and understand the context of what he says, okay?"

Around 6,000 people have died so far

"Son of a whore."

President Obama cancelled a meeting with Duterte after being on the receiving end of this insult following US condemnation of the massacres. The Philippine president's spokesman bizarrely claimed the attack was not personal.