Michelle Obama

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

It was sort of important for us not to deal with a specific policy change, or a specific sort of approach, but to deal with cultural change.

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.

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

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

The point [of the PR industry] is to undermine markets by projecting imagery to delude and suppressing information-and similarly, to undermine democracy by the same method.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner’s legitimate interests.

A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.

When you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn’t sound very severe.

Business power is very far from benign and it’s completely unaccountable. It’s a totalitarian system that has an enormous effect on our lives. It’s also the main reason why the government isn’t benign.

When you chop wood, splinters fly

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Kim Jong-un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That’s when it will change.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.