Michelle Obama Quotes

I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

I don't let a lot of reporters meet my children.

I have a family who are desperately not interested in sharing their life with the world.

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

I just don't think it's appropriate talking about family stuff publicly.

As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.

My mom is a pretty private person, and if I was making Snapchat videos of her all the time, I think, A, she would hit me, and B, she just wouldn't appreciate it. So I don't do it a ton.

Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.

You have to protect your personal life, your family and their intimacy as much as possible, whenever possible. Especially when you're a public figure with appearances to attend. Of course, that's harder to do than to say.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.

You can insult me - you can judge me on the football pitch - that's normal. But don't touch my family. Don't touch my parents. I love them more than everything on this earth.

As a family, we are all very close, so we all know what we all are doing. Other than that, we don't see why we should be talking about our private lives and keep it an open book.

Speaking about my children is off limits.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

I'm the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom's birthday, or my dog's birthday.

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.

In the past, if I was in the middle of a situation involving my personal life, I was always keeping it to me and my family. I wasn't explaining or telling the fans what was going on because they don't need to know.

If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.

I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.