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

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" 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. "

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

" I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. "

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

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

" You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda. "

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

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

" Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "