Michelle Obama Quotes

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

And at some point who's to say that you cannot have sex with a child some point.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

No child's behind left.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.