Barack Obama

Michelle’s not somebody who wants to be deeply involved in policy development. She’s my closest friend and my most important adviser. But I don’t anticipate her sitting around the table trying to figure out tax policy. She’ll probably choose a project that she cares about. But her number-one priority is going to be these kids, and making sure that their transition is one in which the wonderful normalcy that they have is maintained.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.

Obviously I couldn’t have done anything that I’ve done without Michelle… not only has she been a great first lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day.

[on Michelle] After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right!

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president. Being married to Michelle Obama is number one.

There’s no doubt I’m a better man having spent time with Michelle. I would never say that Michelle’s a better woman, but I will say she’s a little more patient.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

This is my first marriage. Beforehand, I was living in sin.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.

On Oct. 3, 1992, Barack and I were married in Chicago – and every day since, I’ve grown prouder and more in love with him.

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.