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

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.

I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

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