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

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

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 get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

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

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.