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 get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.