Top 100 Quotes About Marcos
#2. I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,' Suki shrugged by way of explanation.
Sarah Alderson
#3. President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
Imelda Marcos
#4. If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.
Sukarno
#5. I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.
Greg Garber
#6. I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another.
Imelda Marcos
#7. When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.
Florencio Campomanes
#8. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#9. My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.
Michael Moritz
#10. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#11. At thirteen it was evident that Bleu and Azul were going to be different from their father. They respected him as their father, but they despised the way Marcos treated me.
Ivy Symone
#12. Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.
Imelda Marcos
#13. In spite of all the red flags and signs that Marc had more baggage than Imelda Marcos taking shoes on vacation, I continued to date him.
Cierra Rantoul
#14. It is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.
Dave Zirin
#15. You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#16. Have you really stolen a car?" "I have really stolen many cars before." "Could you steal my car?" "Your midrange car with no theft protection devices that you keep unlocked in your garage that is also unlocked?" Marcos snorted in disbelief. "Yes, I could steal it.
Kele Moon
#17. After all these years, he couldn't believe he'd recognized her so instantly. He prayed that she wouldn't recognize him, but as her eyes widened, he knew she had.
"Marcos?" she breathed.
And his worst nightmare came true. His cover was blown.
Elizabeth Heiter
#18. Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.
Ferdinand Marcos
#19. In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.
Subcomandante Marcos
#20. The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Ferdinand Marcos
#22. It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Imelda Marcos
#23. Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle.
Rush Limbaugh
#24. I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive ... not really rob. It's done with a smile.
Imelda Marcos
#25. I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.
Imelda Marcos
#26. The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
Ferdinand Marcos
#27. The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers won't find a single toehold for their suspicions.
Marcos Giralt Torrente
#28. The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
Imelda Marcos
#29. I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Imelda Marcos
#30. Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.
Subcomandante Marcos
#31. More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.
Imelda Marcos
#32. I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Imelda Marcos
#33. My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
Imelda Marcos
#34. No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.
Ferdinand Marcos
#36. I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos
#37. Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive
must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!
Imelda Marcos
#40. America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.
Ferdinand Marcos
#43. The prophecy is here: When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world, but something better.
Subcomandante Marcos
#44. I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
#45. God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Imelda Marcos
#46. You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.
Crystal Marcos
#48. I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
#49. I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
Imelda Marcos
#50. I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
#51. For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
Subcomandante Marcos
#52. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#53. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#54. It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.
Ferdinand Marcos
#55. It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.
Imelda Marcos
#56. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#57. Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos
#58. I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
Imelda Marcos
#60. Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.
Ferdinand Marcos
#61. Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos
#62. My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Imelda Marcos
#63. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#64. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#65. What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
Imelda Marcos
#66. The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
Ferdinand Marcos
#67. I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Ferdinand Marcos
#68. I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
Ferdinand Marcos
#69. Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos
#70. I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
Ferdinand Marcos
#71. Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos
#72. They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail.
Imelda Marcos
#73. Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They're much better than any column of political analysis.
Subcomandante Marcos Laura Castellanos
#75. You are a bit like that painting, Minnow. Remember how lovingly and carefully formed you are. Your thoughts, your talents, your memories, your mistakes ... they all make the complete canvas of you. Even though others may mistake your worth, you must never value yourself any less.
Michelle Marcos
#76. I don't believe in courtship, it's a waste of time. If I love the person, I'll tell her right away. But for you, I'll make an exemption: Just love me now, and I will court you forever.
Ferdinand E. Marcos
#77. Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.
Michelle Marcos
#78. The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
Imelda Marcos
#80. The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.
Subcomandante Marcos
#81. What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
#82. The photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.
Subcomandante Marcos
#83. I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos
#84. Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos
#85. We argue that the role of teachers is becoming less that of a knowledge transmitter, and closer to that of an "animator of collective intelligence" who provides analytical tools (the proverbial "fishing rod") rather than simply giving away raw information ("fish").
Marcos C. Lima
#86. I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.
Imelda Marcos
#87. The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.
Subcomandante Marcos
#88. People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos
#89. Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Imelda Marcos
#90. Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
Subcomandante Marcos
#91. We practically own everything in the Philippines.
Imelda Marcos
#92. My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
Imelda Marcos
#93. 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.
Imelda Marcos
#95. The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
Ferdinand Marcos
#97. I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.
Imelda Marcos
#98. In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
Subcomandante Marcos
#99. We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.
Subcomandante Marcos
#100. When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos
