Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. |
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose. |
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. |
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. |
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. |
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. |
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave. |
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? |
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. |
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. |
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become. |
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven. |
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. |
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. |
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. |
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. |
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. |
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. |
We practically own everything in the Philippines. |
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much. |