I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.

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.

Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

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 want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

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