Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
