Michelle Obama

Quotes

• “See, my parents didn't go to college, but they were determined to give us that opportunity. My dad was a pump operator a...”
• “Kamala went out and she worked hard in school, graduating from an HBCU, earning her law degree at a state school. And th...”
• “Those are the values that Barack and I and so many of you are trying to pass on to our own children. That's who we are. ...”
• “Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a ...”
• “I want our young people to know that they matter, that they belong. So don't be afraid-you hear me, young people? Don't ...”
• “My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my "Blackness" than ever before. I have found that at Princet...”
• “Kamala Harris and I built our lives on those same foundational values. Even though our mothers grew up an ocean apart, t...”
• “The thing that I want you all to remember: please, please, don't base your vote, this time, on fear. Base it on possibil...”
• “...if you truly wish to carry on the Oberlin legacy of service and social justice, then you need to run to, and not away...”
• “See, the truth is that if Princeton hadn't found my brother as a basketball recruit, and if I hadn't seen that he could ...”
• “Kamala Harris, is more than ready for this moment. She is one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of th...”
• “I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. We don't have time to wait. We need big cha...”
• “With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most impo...”
• “To all the young women here tonight, and all across the country, let me say those words again: Black girls rock! We rock...”
• “Are we ready to believe in the power of our own voices? Are we ready to cast aside our fear and cynicism? Are we ready t...”
• “Every time I meet a child I think, who knows what's going on in her life, whether she was just bullied or whether she ha...”
• “Sometimes it makes your hips move. Sometimes it makes you rock your head. Sometimes it helps you just kick back and rela...”
• “And as our friendship grew, and I learned more about Barack, he introduced me to the work he'd done when he first moved ...”
• “Serving as your First Lady is an honor and a privilege...but back when we first came together four years ago, I still ha...”
• “So tonight, in honor of my father's memory and my daughters' future - out of gratitude to those whose triumphs we mark t...”
• “I can't tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on ...”
• “The size of our hips, our style, our swag, it becomes co-opted but then we are demonised... My advice to young women is ...”
• “When I first arrived at school as a first-generation college student, I didn't know anyone on campus except my brother. ...”
• “You can't handle goody bags. Let me explain the goody bag thing. You have to go into the party store and choose the bags...”
• “People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters - and sons - ca...”
• “Kamala knows, like we do, that regardless of where you come from, what you look like, who you love, how you worship, or ...”
• “... [ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lucy Stone, Martin Luther King Jr. ]... didn't let the ugliness and the obstacles deter the...”
• “At this phase of my life, I'm in therapy right now because I'm transitioning, you know? I'm 60 years old, I finished a r...”
• “He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation...”
• “My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and ...”
• “By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separation...”
• “And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want...”
• “One of the major decisions I made this year was to stay put and not attend funerals and inaugurations and all the things...”
• “We're going to have to dig deep into our souls, confront our own self-doubt, and recognize that our destiny is in our ha...”
• “Ich höre, er ist ein eindrucksvoller Typ. Ein großartiger Redner. Ein Juraprofessor. Ein Bestsellerautor. Und ein Grammy...”
• “Every day, you have the power to choose our better history - by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what y...”
• “...Generation after generation, this country has become more equal, more inclusive, more fair, more free. My life and so...”
• “So I think I kind of squelched my ambition. But now is a time for me to embrace my own ambition and to define it for me....”
• “The fact that people don't see me going out on a date with my husband sparks rumors of the end of our marriage. It's lik...”
• “Speech to the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee in New York City (June 2008), quoted...”
• “And if so many brave men and women could sacrifice their lives for our most fundamental rights, then surely we can do ou...”
• “I wanted them to have the freedom of not having the eyes of the world on them, And so when people ask me would I ever ru...”
• “I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in ...”
• “Today we're celebrating the kind of music that makes you move no matter who you are or where you come from; music that t...”
• “Hillary (Clinton) has spent decades doing the relentless work to actually make a difference in their lives. Advocating f...”
• “So when people ask me whether being in the White House has changed my husband, I can honestly say that when it comes to ...”
• “And everywhere I've gone, in the people I've met, and the stories I've heard, I have seen the very best of the American ...”
• “Barack and I did everything we could to give our girls as normal of a life as possible. When we were at the White House,...”
• “Barack has led by example. When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV t...”
• “That's the thing that we as women struggle with - disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people couldn'...”