If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

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

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

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

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

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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

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

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

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

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

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

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

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

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

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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

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

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

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.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

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.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

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

Life is not a matter of place things or comfort rather it concerns the basic human rights of family country justice and human dignity.

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Response is absolutely designed for always showing up late.

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

Ive come to realize that just making yourself happy is the most important. Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want and do what makes you happy.

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.