Imelda Marcos Quotes

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

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

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

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 have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

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

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

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

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

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