Imelda, reacting to the documentary screened in Sundance, among other things:

Our first trip to the United States we brought down the [U.S. military] bases agreement from 99 years to 25. Cuba has only one Guantanamo, and we had more than 20. The second [largest] number of bases outside of America was in the Philippines. Fidel Castro used to tell people, "I only drove for two women in my life. My mother and Mrs. Marcos." When I got there, he was so envious of Marcos and the Philippines.

It's great to have so much power.

The fact alone is that I am known just by saying Imelda... No need for my last name. What makes me controversial is I am whole. I laugh, I cry, I work. I have been ridiculed, vilified and persecuted because of my shoes. But in a way they saved me. Because when they went through my closets looking for skeletons, all they found were shoes.

I wonder if that's an original punchline. It's too funny to have just been punched out for this interview. Besides, no one was looking for skeletons in the Palace -- they had found enough in the countryside. What we did find were signs of your trademark regalia: the extra large family-sized bottles of Chanel, and, yes the shoes.

I didn't plan to be a Filipino. This country has it all. This is paradise. It is just that people don't realize it because Filipinos have been brainwashed for hundreds of years.

And in some ways, she's right, although not in the context of her madness.

They say the East and West will never meet. I have a project that will make it meet by putting a tunnel under the Pacific Ocean to the China Sea. We have a vision. It has been my project since I was First Lady.

Let's just put a tunnel now, shall we? Seriously, my mom would always say, you can demonize the Marcoses all you want, but all the roads, bridges and highways we have, they're all because of Marcos. When you look at Korea and Singapore, you really wonder how, some times, having an almighty dictator can get the job done fast. Too much democracy is after all, the cause of our many ills today.