Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

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.

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

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

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.

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.