I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a...
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat peop...
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see...
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
This would be the only time in eight years that he’d request my presence in the middle of a workday, the two of us rearranging our schedules to be alone together for a moment of dim comfort. Usually,...
This was not me and never would be. I could be supportive, but I couldn’t be a robot.
I’d greet him with a playful fist bump onstage at an event in Minnesota, which would then make headlines, interpreted by one Fox commentator as a terrorist fist jab, again suggesting that we were dang...
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work an...
Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.
Optics would always rule our lives.
It was as if he’d surrendered a part of himself as a way of coping.
Even white people were recognizing him now.
Am I good enough? Yes, in fact I am.
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in...