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!

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

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

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

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

If the shoe fits, buy it.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.