Ferdinand Marcos Quotes

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

No ruler who lacks the gift of persuasion can stay in office long; it is the indispensable condition of government. It would be an idle illusion to assume that any government, no matter how good, could lastingly do without public consent.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

I'm running [ for presidency] because we need to take our country back.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

My plan is to govern as long as I can.

I’m the constitution around here now.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

The military in all these struggling democracies is an important player. They can take over the leadership or determine the leadership.

In government change is suspected.

If you cannot trust our leaders, you cannot govern.

Change: In politics, the substitution of one disappointment for another.

Arab governments, at the end of the day, care most about remaining in power.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

Politics is fate.