Imelda Marcos Quotes

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

Politics is about wanting to be loved.

I am a marquee player and certainly that means a lot of responsibility.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

It's really great to hear that people do look at us as role models and we hope we are able to live up to that expectation as well.

I have to just come to work every single day. That's not just on the field but off the field, because you have little kids looking up to you; your face is the face of this franchise and this university. You have to understand that every decision that you make is going to be criticized.

I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

Political spouses don't announce that they're staying, only that they're leaving. And that I have no announcements to make here tonight, at this time, with you, on this occasion.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.