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 really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.