Michelle Obama

I don’t believe in playing games. It’s not something I would do.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Every day, you have the power to choose our better history – by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right.

Choose people who lift you up.

I was loved dearly by my father but I was never so precious that he didn’t think that I could be in there right at the table.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

The Institute of Defense Analysis…has been working on crowd control, which means control of blacks, students, peace demonstrators. And the technology for doing this is extremely efficacious and will only improve. So that’s one reason for nonviolence.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner’s permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don’t have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the enlightenment.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one’s own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars – they would think the country has gone insane.

The goal of Socialism is Communism.

The option preferred by the privileged is for the fate of everyone else to be in the hands of insurance company executives whose goal, as Milton Friedman can explain, is to ensure maximum profit and market share: meaning the worst possible health care.

I was shocked more than most white people to find we had a black President!