Imelda Marcos Quotes
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Shenon, Philip. "Imelda Marcos Campaigns." The New York Times, 10 May 1992.
Electioneering had reached the point that there was almost no rationality left in the major elections in America. Appeals to emotions and hatreds, attacks on personality, scare tactics, lies, and false promises where characteristic of almost all candidates’ campaigns.
Imelda Romualdez Marcos is a Filipino politician and convicted criminal who was First Lady of the Philippines for 21 years, during which she and her husband stole billions:176 from the Filipino people, amassing a personal fortune estimated to have been worth US$5 billion to 10 billion by the time they were deposed in 1986. By 2018, about $3.6 billion of this had been recovered by the Philippine government, either through compromise deals or sequestration cases.