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Marcos was not a smoker, he was not known as a drinker, he didn’t swear—the strongest expression of irritation people would hear from him was “Lintik!” And he was not much more of a womanizer than most men of his generation and macho culture like to think themselves to be. He was not tall, but trim and athletic for most of his life: a marksman, orator, armed with a photographic memory. Surely we can agree he was a man of talent; we continue to disagree whether he used those talents for anything larger than his own ambitions.
       
-Manuel L. Quezon III, The Long View: Marcos in retrospect, September 17, 2007


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This generation of Filipinos fought a foreign power that invaded us. I think all of them are entitled to be buried in the Libingan ng Mga Bayani. Regardless of whether medals or no medals he, as a soldier who fought that war, is entitled to be buried in Libingan, and I am not denigrating the people who are denying that right or objecting to it. I don’t think they ever saw the muzzles of the guns of a foreign enemy and confronted them.
       
-Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Enrile: Marcos, as soldier, deserves 'Libingan' burial, Manila Bulletin, April 14, 2011


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He was hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws.

-U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, after his telephone conversation with Marcos, March 1986


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What could possibly be larger than his ambitions were his delusions. However, the two were so closely intertwined that any attempt to try to distinguish them would be pointless.

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