Barack Obama

You can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean that you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

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

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

[living at the White House] This isn’t about us. There’s so much history here that no one family can claim this space as their own.

Yes, we can

Women are not a special interest group. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health.

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.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

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

My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

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.

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

[on Michelle] A dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.