Michelle Obama Quotes

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that she's qualified to hold the job.

I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.

Being mayor takes a certain amount of creativity.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.

I am definitely a Hillary, a Secretary Clinton supporter. I think that she's got the experience and the leadership capabilities to be the next president - and most importantly, her understanding of domestic and foreign policy and social issues.

Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.

Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.

No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.

Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.

I've known Hillary Clinton for a long time. She's trustworthy. She's ready from Day One to assume the office of presidency in the United States. She's qualified and she's ready as compared to, I think, Donald Trump, who has shown his recklessness, and dangerous statements that he's made.

It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

One of the biggest things about being an entrepreneur is discovering your own management style. You can learn from others and try to emulate what they are doing, but at the end of the day, your inherent personality - how you deal with events and situations - comes to the forefront.

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically.

As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.