Imelda Marcos Quotes

I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,’ Suki shrugged by way of explanation.

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

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.

Georgie had never laid eyes on half of them, but that was nothing new. Tara collected friends like Imelda Marcos had collected shoes.

The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills.

This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

I started entertaining second thoughts about my support and propaganda work for Marcos towards the end of the year 1973. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact point in time when I did. But it must have been right after December 30,1973, which was the day Marcos’ second and last term in office under the 1935 Constitution ended. At about that point in time, I began to realize that Marcos imposed martial law, not to save the country from a Communist rebellion and to reform society, but to hold on to the presidency for life — and as a dictator. I

IN THE EARLY MORNING of December 30, 1965, a few hundred Filipinos milled around the suburban residence of President-elect Ferdinand E. Marcos. They came in all manner of transport, from distant and nearby provinces, attracted by publicity on the celebrated beauty of the First Lady-to-be, Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

The U.S. government cannot just fold its arms on the Philippines with which it has had a long tradition of friendship and history of tutelage in democracy. In the light of the traditional American policy of fighting its defensive wars outside the American continent, the Philippines becomes America’s special concern because it is a vital link in the U.S. world-wide defense network designed to keep wars away from American shores.

I am told that my grandmother, the Beautiful Wife, was in awe of Imelda Marcos, the provincial beauty queen whom historians later called the Iron Butterfly. My grandmother, a girl from the provinces who worked her way to Manila, saw in Imelda an ideal. “Her favorite book

You know, the strange thing about going back to the place of one's childhood is not that people change- that's quite natural- but that you expect them somehow to stay the same in the way they treat you. In other words, you expect them to still think of you, where you used to live and walk, the people you interacted with, your habits and your rituals, as if you were still with them. But the ghost you left behind is really the last thing people want to think about. A place may change little, yes, but it changes a great deal in terms of how it remembers you. And so you are surprised every time you realize the ways in which you've been forgotten.

Better a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like Heaven by Americans.

Imelda Marcos was trying to line up a partnership in which we did everything, put the money up, ran the shops, took all the risk, while she was supposed to get kickbacks,” said Feeney. “When the word ‘corruption’ came up, we ran.” Paying commissions to travel agents was one thing—but getting ensnared with corrupt politicians was another.

Others may be able to help you pay the mite that you owe to creditors, but they cannot help you pay the penalty you owe to God for the unrighteous sins you have committed during your lifetime. Human effort is not the currency that can pay off your debt of sin. Imelda Marcos from the Philippines used to walk on her knees from the back of her Catholic church all the way to the front. She thought that her suffering would pay for her sins. When she meets Jesus, she will realize that she was deceived. Muslims believe there is a great weighing scale that weighs their good deeds against their bad deeds to determine where they will spend eternity. Again, that won’t be happening. So to avoid taking their chances with the weighing scale, they’re taught that if they die as a martyr for Allah, they can skip judgment and go directly to Paradise! Nope. Their ticket must be stamped in the blood of Jesus Christ, or they will not be entering Paradise for all of eternity. Jesus tells us in verse 59 of our chapter’s passage that the guilty cannot pay their sin debt. They can’t get that last penny. They don’t have it, and no one can lend it to them or give it to them. Anyone who stands before the Lord without having their sins washed away by His blood will have no ability to pay off their eternal debt of sin. Remember, there is a great penalty for not having your sin debt paid in full before you stand before the Judge. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:46