Michelle Obama

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.

I’ve been at so many tables with so many folks who are imposters. But shame on us if we sit by and let an imposter talk us down.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do and be okay.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

[on Donald Trump] I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

I hold it to be… a detestable maxim that, politically speaking, the people have a right to do anything.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

It’s a time for the unconventional. I’m not a traditional thinker. I’m a non-conformist. So [Trump’s victory] relates to the non-conformist part of me.

You don’t have to set limits on your talent and your ambition – or those of your children. You don’t have to be grateful to survive in a world made by others.

It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.

But you really have to think through the talk about nonviolence. Sure, everybody’s in favor of nonviolence rather than violence, but under what conditions and when? Is it an absolute principle?

There is no justification for the belief that, so long as power is conferred by democratic procedure, it cannot be arbitrary…it is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.