Family Michelle Obama Quotes & Sayings

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. — Michelle Obama

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to! — Betty MacDonald

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom. — Linda Fiorentino

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. — Michelle Obama

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. — Michelle Obama

Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it. — Michael Kitson

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time, — Michelle Obama

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures ... a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to. — Andrew Holleran

Happiness for me is when my kids are good and when my family is whole. — Michelle Obama

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. — Michelle Obama

Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground are a constant connection with the earth. Your feet bring your private clay in touch with the ancient, mother clay from which you first emerged. — John O'Donohue

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole. — Michelle Obama

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us. — Tom Peters

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things. — Barack Obama

Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story. — Barack Obama

To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family. — Michelle Obama

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization. — Mark Cuban

When they go low, we go high. — Michelle Obama

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. — Diane Cilento

Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day. — Michelle Obama

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. — Nancy Gibbs

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth. — Warren Buffett

The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers. — Anthony H. Cordesman