Quotes By Imelda Marcos

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

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

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