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

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

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

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

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

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!

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