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

Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.

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

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.

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

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 problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.