President Marcos Quotes & Sayings

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years. — Ferdinand Marcos

Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely. — Terrence Rafferty

All the devils respect virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Carmen Navarro Pedrosa

I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated. — Ferdinand Marcos

Only love can fill an empty heart with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Just another little piece of utterly irrelevant history, aspiring to permanence, doomed to oblivion. — Tommy Wallach

Bex, please use this against me for the rest of our lives as an example of how I am about as clever as a shed. — Heather Cocks

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. — Ferdinand Marcos

When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post. — Florencio Campomanes

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it. — Thich Nhat Hanh

President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics. — Imelda Marcos