The Sisterhood of Gloria Arroyo and Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos:Included in Newsweek's Greediest List

Gloria Arroyo: "The Most Corrupt Country In Asia" Tag During Her Term

"My example is integrity." Gloria Arroyo

"This is the reason why I have decided to run -- so that I can manage the Marcos wealth properly for the direct benefit of the people."Imelda

“I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.” Imelda Marcos — cited in Ang Katipunan, October 1980

“Like Caesar’s wife, we must be above suspicion and we must see to it that morality, transparency and commitment will be supreme, always and everywhere.”
- Press Conference
March 20, 2001

 “I am my little people’s star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents’ wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That’s not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.” — from the Los Angeles Times, October 1980

 “The austerity project is very much observed but I am sure that, in the context of foreign travels…it’s an exception because they are ministerial (and) important meetings (that the President has to attend),” Press Secretary Cerge Remonde 

 "My economic theory is that money was made round to go round. Money was made to encircle man so that he would blossom with many flowers. The whole trouble is, the center is money. All the heads of people thinking about money. All the hands of people reaching out for money. All their poor little bodies working for money. They are running in all directions for money." 
Imelda Marcos — November 1985, to Sandra Burton, in Impossible Dream

Will They Ever Really Repent?