Michelle Obama

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Michelle Obama

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

Michelle Obama

My goal has always been to add value, not to be redundant, not to get in the way, but to do things that lift and move things forward in a very strategic and objective way so that there are real outcomes.

Michelle Obama

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won’t mind being 70, but I want people to say, ‘You’re 70?’

Michelle Obama

My happiness is measured against my kids’ happiness – when they’re in a good place, I feel really good.

Michelle Obama

My happiness is tied to how I feel about myself.

Michelle Obama

My happiness isn’t connected to my husband’s or my boss’s or my children’s behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

Michelle Obama

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

Michelle Obama

My most important title is Mom in Chief.

Michelle Obama

My view is that if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House. Can’t do it.

Michelle Obama