Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr.was a Filipino politician and kleptocrat who was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled as dictator under martial law from 1972 until 1981. While his regime started an unprecedented number of infrastructure projects and monuments, it also became infamous for its corruption, extravagance and brutality...
NationalityFilipino
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth11 September 1917
CitySarrat, Philippines
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You even have tourists visiting the site which is great. It would make people more conscious about the availability of alternative power sources.
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Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.
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Sir, ma'am liked this when she saw this in New York. But she couldn't afford it,
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We only sold a portion because, upon the advice of the World Bank, those carbon credits that we are still entitled to may be sold at a higher price later,
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.
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Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.