Barack Obama

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

[on Michelle] After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right!

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean that you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

It’s pretty clear that if men were having babies we’d have different policies.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

On Oct. 3, 1992, Barack and I were married in Chicago – and every day since, I’ve grown prouder and more in love with him.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

[on Michelle] Like a lot of political spouses, the role was thrust upon her. But I always knew she’d be incredible at it, and put her own unique stamp on the job. That’s because who you see is who she is-the brilliant, funny, generous woman who, for whatever reason, agreed to marry me. I think people gravitate to her because they see themselves in her-a dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time.

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.