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You take your last flight off, flying over the Capitol, where there weren’t that many people there. We saw it.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There were tears, there was that emotion. But then to sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display – there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage, there was no reflection of the broader sense of America.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When those doors shut, I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing, because that’s how much we were holding it together for eight years.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I worked on it day and night. And I said good morning to her, and I said good night to her.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
He used that experience and a keen sense of the political undercurrents to quickly galvanize a populist conservative movement, he was offering a set of ideas that his party had not fully embraced at the time, from strict border enforcement to tougher trade deals to less military intervention abroad.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Michelle to the rescue? You might ask yourselves, how much trouble are the Democrats really in? they actually might try to convince Michelle Obama to run for president. Remember, just a few months ago, even Joe Rogan got in on that act.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's one last thing that I should mention that I love about Great Britain, and that is The Queen, and so I'm very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. ... I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what The Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that's very important.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
And yet, even in the face of all this incompetence, Americans keep digging deeper, finding new reserves of strength, doing whatever it takes to get through this.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But what they didn't have to contend with was this president.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everybody wants their kids back in school as soon as it's safe, but as a mom, it is frightening, thinking about all of these young people -- who were just our babies yesterday -- quarantined alone in dorms or apartments with little or no support as the disease continues to spread, unable to come home if their symptoms get worse. Just imagine the toll that worry is taking on families across this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
All This President wants to do is appeal to This President base, this President has no principles. None. None. And This President base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that's drowning out everything else.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's not just disappointing, it's downright infuriating.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country, donald Trump has had more than enough time to prove that Donald Trump can do the job, but Donald Trump is clearly in over Donald Trump head. Donald Trump can not meet this moment.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Theyre looking around wondering if weve been lying to them this whole time, they see people shouting in grocery stores unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe; they see people callingthe police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin...They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemy of the state, while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The ability to walk in someone elses shoes. The recognition that someone elses experience has values too, most of us practice this without a second thought.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can -- and they will, if we dont make a change in this election.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is the America on display for the next generation,a nation that is underperforming not simply on matters of policy but on matters of character.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'm waking up in the middle of the night because I'm worrying about something or there's a heaviness.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whats happening right now is the direct result of decades of unaddressed prejudice and inequality, for too many people in this country, no matter how hard they work, there are structural barriers for them that just make the road longer and rockier.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Those months I spent traveling — meeting and connecting with people in cities across the globe — drove home the idea that what we share in common is deep and real and can't be messed with, becoming.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Americans should never have to choose between making their voices heard and keeping themselves and their families safe, expanding access to vote-by-mail, online voter registration and early voting are critical steps for this moment -- and they're long overdue.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Last year, as you know, we were proud to host Prime Minister Singh and Mrs. Kaur for our very first state visit and dinner. It was a beautiful evening under a tent on the South Lawn of the White House, and we got to hear some pretty great Bhangra as well. I danced there, too, when I was your age, I never dreamed of traveling to countries like this and meeting with young people like all of you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We want people to be able to get outside of themselves and experience and understand the lives of somebody else.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A good story gives you the chance to better understand someone else's life. It can help you find common ground. And it's why Michelle and I were drawn to Higher Ground first film.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That was my background, that was my father, one of the many things I love about Higher Ground first film... is that you let people tell their own story.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Absolutely, because the general election is so important that we have to get behind whoever comes out in that primary.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's smart to leverage what West Wing is doing for an East Wing initiative because that way there's no real competition, West Wing's more about working together in tandem and using the first lady's power, which is very real, to make change.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We believe each of these productions won't just entertain, but will educate, connect and inspire us all.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say,' Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a' circular firing squad,' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I've held my last political office, michelle would leave me if I ever ran for office again.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Democratic former president have to recognize that the way we've structured democracy requires The Democratic former president to take into account people who don't agree with The Democratic former president, and that by definition means The Democratic former president're not going to get 100 percent of what The Democratic former president want.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Michelle Obama can't set up a system in which Michelle Obama don't compromise on anything, but Michelle Obama also can't operate in a system where Michelle Obama compromise on everything.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Music helps us share ourselves -- our dignity and sorrows, our hopes and joys, it allows us to hear one another, to invite each other in. Music shows us that all of it matters -- every story within every voice, every note within every song.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
From the Motown records I wore out on the South Side, to the' who run the world' songs that fueled me through this last decade, music has always helped me tell my story. And I know that's true for everybody here.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Marriage still ain't equal, y' all, it ain't equal. I tell women that whole' you can have it all' -- mmm, nope, not at the same time, that's a lie. It's not always enough to lean in because that s --- doesn't work all the time.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We haven't had much time to reflect over these eight years because we were so busy doing and so busy trying to be perfect, and to get everything right that rarely did we have time to sit back and acknowledge what we've done, w and I was able to do that with my husband just the other night. And just look at him and say,' man, man you did this. You did this. You did one of the hardest jobs on the planet.'.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I mean, this is like a state visit, so they tell you that you're going to do this, they're going to stand here. Never before do you get this gift, so I'm sort of like OK. ... What am I supposed to do with this gift ?
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I ’m here to deliver a simple message, and that is : you need to vote because our democracy depends on it.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What happened to the Republican Party ? its central organizing principle in foreign policy was the fight against communism, and now they’re cozying up to the former head of the KBG.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It did not start with Donald Trump, donald Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Donald Trump’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If we really want our voices to be heard, we need to vote in every election. Not just for president, but for every office : school board, statehouse, Senate, all of them, when we all vote, we determine our future.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It truly takes a village to raise children. Build your village wherever you are. It will be your salvation and keep you sane.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I didn’t come into (being first lady) with a blank slate.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When I go throughout my day, I often ask myself, ‘Am I doing what I think Marian and Fraser would expect me to do?’.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They let us know, that as children, our opinions mattered. But they encouraged us to contribute to the solution. You could air it out, but you had to be the one to solve whatever it was.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She’s the one who taught my girls how to do laundry. She keeps us humble and focused on what’s important. She’s also my sounding board. She’ll sit and just listen and then ask me, ‘What do you think you should do about that?’ i didn’t come into (being first lady) with a blank slate.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
My parents had a strong sense of how to parent and taught us at an early age to figure it out, they let us know, that as children, our opinions mattered. But they encouraged us to contribute to the solution. You could air it out, but you had to be the one to solve whatever it was.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Even though all 50 states have addressed this issue in some way, we know that there are still plenty of gaps and challenges that we need to work on, so as far as I'm concerned, our work here definitely isn't finished.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Moms, think about this, i don't care what state you live in. Take me out of the equation; like me, don't like me, but think about why someone is OK with your kids eating crap.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
You have to stop and think, 'Why don't you want our kids to have good food at school? What is wrong with you, and why is that a partisan issue? why would that be political?
Found on CNN 7 years ago
My commitment to these issues is real, i picked this issue because there was deep passion for it as a mother. ... I'm going to continue working on this.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I don't care what state you live in. Take me out of the equation; like me, don't like me, but think about why someone is OK with your kids eating crap.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The talented people who cook the food at your school will be offering you all kinds of healthy, delicious new choices. Foods that are good for you and taste good, too.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again, because this right now is the greatest country on earth.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent, black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Between now and November, we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago. … We need to get out every vote ! let’s get to work.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them, and Barack Obama and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generations.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am sitting here now as the U.S. first lady, talking to you, because of my education.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There were some teachers that I ran into who doubted that a girl like me -- a black girl from the south side of Chicago -- should apply to Princeton or could get into Harvard.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's simple: Who are we trying to get our message to? And oftentimes, we're trying to talk to young people, and as a mom living with two generation Zers, I think that's what you all are called. You're Zers -- teens with an attitude. I've got two of them in my house.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm passionate about this because I truly see myself in these girls -- in their hunger, in their burning determination to rise above their circumstances and reach for something more. And I know that many of you do, too.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And as a mom living with two generation Zers, I think that's what you all are called. You're Zers -- teens with an attitude. I've got two of them in my house.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They don't want me to waste my energy picking out something they don't want, so it'll just be the money.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He's going to get some workout stuff, it's not going to be very interesting this year, honey. Sorry.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If I had worried about who liked me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn't be married to the President of the United States today.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Young people, just like you were sent to boarding schools designed to strip them of their language, culture and history and your religions and ceremonies were outlawed by so-called civilization regulations, regulations that literally made your cultures illegal.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
At 6:30 p.m., no matter how busy I am, I leave work to go upstairs and have dinner with my family. That's inviolable. My staff knows that it pretty much takes a national emergency to keep me away from that dinner table.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives: the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the 'help,'.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm thrilled to be able to put this resource in the heart of the neighborhood that means the world to me, i consider myself a South Sider.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every value, every memory, every important relationship to me exists in Chicago. I consider myself a South Sider.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
But, graduates, today, I want to be very clear that those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I've grown up in this community. I'm as black as it gets. I was born on the South side. I come from an obviously black family. We weren't rich. I put my blackness up against anybody's blackness in this state, ok ? , and Barack is a black man. And he's done more in terms of meeting his commitments and sticking his neck out for this community than many people who criticize him. And I can say that'cause I'm black.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All of that is gonna be a heavy burden to carry. It can feel isolating. It can make you feel like your life somehow doesn't matter ... And as we've seen over the past few years, those feelings are real. They're rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible, and those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So I immersed myself in the policy details. I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. but I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families -- and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden, and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids. I did some mom dancing on TV ... And at the end of the day, by staying true to the me I've always known, I found that this journey has been incredibly freeing.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others, was I too loud or too emasculating? Or was I too soft? Too much of a mom and not enough of a career woman?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
For the last four years, Jeremy has worked tirelessly to open the doors of the White House to as many people as possible and to make each and every event in the White House one to remember, i was lucky to have such a talented individual on my team, and I am equally lucky to have made a lifelong friend in Jeremy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Here's why a movie like this is important: see, the vast majority of Americans will never see these stories. They will never grasp these issues on an emotional level without portrayals like this.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
While I know there have been critics, I felt that, more often than not, this film touches on many of the emotions and experiences that I've heard firsthand from military families over these past few years, here's why a movie like this is important: see, the vast majority of Americans will never see these stories. They will never grasp these issues on an emotional level without portrayals like this.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced, it's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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