We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture.… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We learned about gratitude and humility, that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I had the honor of meeting a young Pakistani woman named Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and nearly killed just for trying… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The president [Barack Obama] asked for a commitment of, I think, 100,000 jobs for veterans and military spouses over the next couple of years.… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We must once again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward my husband,… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads... Now young people can get insurance for as… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you know, when… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
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