Quote

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

Imelda Marcos

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
Diplomat
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Model
Politician
Singer
Socialite
City of Manila
Imelda
Steel Butterfly
Imelda Romuáldez
Jane Ryan
Imelda Romualdez
Imelda R. Marcos
Imelda Romualdez Marcos
Keep
Crucified
Stills
Grandchildren
Still
Steal
People
Stealing
Although
Telling
Growing
Understand
Filipino

More quotes by Imelda Marcos

Image
I am beyond logic and rationality.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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
Image
President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
Imelda Marcos
Image
Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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
Image
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
Imelda Marcos
Image
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
Imelda Marcos
Image
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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
Image
What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
Imelda Marcos
Image
Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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
Image
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos