I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.