The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
— Imelda Marcos
![Marcos Quotes By Donald Trump: [Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman.](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/marcos-quotes-by-donald-trump-376270.jpg "Marcos Quotes By Donald Trump: [Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman.")
[Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman.
— Donald Trump
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
— Imelda Marcos
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
— Ferdinand Marcos
The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
— Imelda Marcos
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I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive ... not really rob. It's done with a smile.
— Imelda Marcos
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
— Imelda Marcos
Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.
— Michelle Marcos
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
— Imelda Marcos
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.
— Imelda Marcos
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
— Imelda Marcos
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
— Imelda Marcos
Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.
— Stephen J. Solarz
If the shoe fits, buy it.
— Imelda Marcos
Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
— Ferdinand Marcos
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
— Imelda Marcos
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
— Imelda Marcos
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
— Imelda Marcos
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
— Imelda Marcos
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
— Imelda Marcos
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
— Imelda Marcos
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
— Imelda Marcos
I am beyond logic and rationality.
— Imelda Marcos
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
— Imelda Marcos
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
— Imelda Marcos
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Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle. — Rush Limbaugh
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung. — Ferdinand Marcos
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. — Imelda Marcos
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. — Imelda Marcos
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. — Imelda Marcos
President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics. — Imelda Marcos
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. — Subcomandante Marcos
It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass. — Imelda Marcos
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. — Subcomandante Marcos
Little boys have amazing minds. — Ferdinand Marcos
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude. — Imelda Marcos
The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things. — Imelda Marcos
We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue. — Subcomandante Marcos
Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me. — Imelda Marcos
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. — Imelda Marcos
In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities. — Subcomandante Marcos
I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act. — Imelda Marcos
History isn't through with me yet. — Ferdinand Marcos
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable. — Imelda Marcos
Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years. — Ferdinand Marcos
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. — Ferdinand Marcos
They need a role model. They need a star! — Imelda Marcos
I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses. — Imelda Marcos
It's easier to run a revolution than a government. — Ferdinand E. Marcos
We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. — Subcomandante Marcos
Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without — Subcomandante Marcos
I love you, Sir Marco! — Toni Gonzaga
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor? — Ferdinand Marcos
Nobody is impervious to misfortune. — Ferdinand Marcos
I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060. — Imelda Marcos
We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible. — Subcomandante Marcos
I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,' Suki shrugged by way of explanation. — Sarah Alderson
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. — Imelda Marcos
I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies. — Imelda Marcos
You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference. — Crystal Marcos
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose. — Imelda Marcos
You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring. — Alma Guillermoprieto
The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people. — Imelda Marcos
Once a champion, always a champion. — Ferdinand Marcos
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. — Imelda Marcos
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? — Ferdinand Marcos
I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet — Subcomandante Marcos
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way. — Ferdinand Marcos
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness. — Imelda Marcos
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? — Imelda Marcos
Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices. — Subcomandante Marcos
Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. — Ferdinand Marcos
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them. — Ferdinand Marcos
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them. — Ferdinand Marcos
It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die. — Ferdinand Marcos
We practically own everything in the Philippines. — Imelda Marcos
In spite of all the red flags and signs that Marc had more baggage than Imelda Marcos taking shoes on vacation, I continued to date him. — Cierra Rantoul
What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love? — Imelda Marcos
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. — Ferdinand Marcos
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. — Subcomandante Marcos
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness. — Ferdinand Marcos
I claim the right not to incriminate myself. — Ferdinand Marcos
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. — Imelda Marcos
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven. — Imelda Marcos
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm. — Stephen Jay Gould
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect. — Ferdinand Marcos
If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone. — Sukarno
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions. — Ferdinand Marcos
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government. — Ferdinand Marcos
