Imelda Marcos Quotes

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

Politics, Fish, Holding

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.
Imelda Marcos

Politics, College, Lawyer

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

Love, God, Loved

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

Food, Crisis, Long

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

Beauty, God, Mind

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

Nothing, Rich, Poor

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

Life, Family, Justice

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

Life, Dreams, Reality

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

Dreams, Live, Small

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

Husband, Give, Talk

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

Time, Real, Understand

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

Beauty, Money, Person

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

Freedom, Today, Justice

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

Friends, California, Dear

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

God, Down, Face

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

Truth, Mean, Used

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

She, Second, British

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Born: July 1, 1929

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