When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

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.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.