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Quotes by First-lady
"As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids."
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"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
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"And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy."
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"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."
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"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."
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"The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know."
Man,
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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"I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics."
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"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
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"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
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"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."
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"When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted."
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"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."
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"Politics is a people business. I like people."
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"And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"
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"The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time."
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"We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday."
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"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
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"Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?"
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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
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"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
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"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."
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"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open."
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"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters."
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"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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"But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
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"You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right."
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
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"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future."
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"I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder."
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"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"
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"No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is."
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
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"It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
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"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
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"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
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"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
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"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
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"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
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