Zitat des Tages über Michelle Obama:
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
I don't feel comfortable talking about the specifics of how it all comes together, but the truth is, I don't ever know when Michelle Obama is going to wear my clothes! She, like everyone else, picks her outfits and wears them when she wants - sometimes two or three times. It's not ever calculated.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
I'm not that kind of wife who would say, 'Learn this' or 'Learn that.' I'm not a nagging wife.
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
It takes heart to be in political life.
But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.
I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
I'm always focused on pieces that have superior cut, and I tend to like color.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.
Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Actors are one family over the entire world.