"I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance."

"People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?"

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

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

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

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

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

"I am beyond logic and rationality."

"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave."

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

"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."

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

"We practically own everything in the Philippines."

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

"It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass."

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

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."

 

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