Michelle Obama Quotes

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

I personally would prefer to send my child to a school where the teachers are armed … and prepared.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

We need walls around our schools, we need to protect our schools. Ten-foot rule. You can't get within ten feet unless you're supposed to be there.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.

I can do whatever is necessary to protect the United States.

It shouldn't be just the rich and the powerful that send their children to schools where there is armed security. Parents shouldn't be holding their breath because there's no security in schools they're sending their children to.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

I can't set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

With all the foreign aid the United State does... can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

We need to look for ways to secure our schools, single-point of entrance.

We need to make sure that we have mental health counselors in our schools. We need to make sure that we have possibly a law enforcement security guards in each one of the schools.

We protect our banks, hospitals and airports with armed personnel; surely, we can do more to protect schools, which teach our nation's most valuable resource.

Even going out to get milk becomes a little bit challenging, just because there is a whole entourage that then travels with me for this simple thing. So I tend to try and find ways not to inconvenience a whole raft of other people, so it changes my mindset a little bit.

Well, I'm a runner, and I have to run with Secret Service - even though they can run twice as fast. It took me a while to get used to running with them, because I love the solitary aspect of it. So I have two rules. First, I can't hear their feet. And second, I can't see their shadows.