Barack Obama

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

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

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

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.

I’m a history buff, and I know that big changes take time. But I also know that, setting politics aside, usually things are never as good as you think they are or as bad as you think they are. And that has served me well temperamentally.

Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

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.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

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.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.

There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.

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

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.

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

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.

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

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

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

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.