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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

I have traveled to three-fourths of the Philippines.

Four years is a long time in politics.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.