Michelle Obama

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character.

I view myself as being the average woman.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents, are their most important role models.

Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well-informed.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough