Frases de Imelda Marcos

Imelda Remedios Visitación Romualdez é uma política das Filipinas, viúva do presidente Ferdinando Marcos.

✵ 2. Julho 1929
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Imelda Marcos: Frases em inglês

“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.”

Statement made upon opening the Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila, as quoted in "Homage to Imelda's shoes" at BBC News (16 February 2001) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1173911.stm.

“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.”

After promising to give $800 million to poor Filipinos if she becomes president, quoted in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (March 1998).

“We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.”

Quoted in "Imelda (2003) and in " Director fights for Imelda movie http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3873991.stm", BBC News (7 July 2004).

“I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love.”

On establishing the Marcos Foundation, as quoted in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (December 1998).
Contexto: 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.

“They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.”

Quoted in " The day I met Imelda Marcos http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1000140.stm at BBC News (31 October 2000).
Contexto: When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.

“When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star.”

Quoted in The Los Angeles Times (1980).
Contexto: I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

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

As quoted in TIME magazine (November 1996) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985518,00.html.

“Ferdinand had foresight and unbelievable luck. His success actually bordered on fiction.”

As quoted in "Imelda and the Cash" by Werner Raffetseder in Saga magazine (April 1998).

“It so coincided that Marcos had money. After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold from Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny; America didn't understand him.”

Quoted in " Queen of the Quirky, Imelda Marcos Holds Court http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EED81E39F937A35750C0A960958260" at the New York Times (4 March 1996).

“The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.”

At a press conference in Bloomingdale's, at the opening of the Philippine exhibit, cited in Ang Katipunan (May 1982).

“Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.”

On how Ferdinand Marcos became wealthy, as quoted in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (March 1998).

“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.”

At a press conference, on why the Manila Film Festival should be held in Manila, cited in Ang Katipunan (February 1982).

“Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.”

As quoted in "Homage to Imelda's shoes" at BBC News (16 February 2001)).

“Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry — not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.”

Asserting that all of her jewelry were gifts from her husband, children and "even the dog," as quoted in an Associated Press report (April 1998).

“President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.”

Explaining her and her husband's wealth, as quoted in Today (April 1998).

“I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.”

After being acquitted of graft charges, albas quoted in "No Apology, It Was A Godly Act — Imelda" in Newsflash (14 October 1998) http://www.newsflash.org/199810/hl/hl000982.htm.

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