Michelle Obama Quotes

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

The closer you get to Number 10 the more you see what a back-breaking job that is, the pressure is absolutely constant and the loss of privacy is almost complete so I don't have ambitions in that direction and there is no vacancy nor likely to be during my time in politics.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

Even though my life has been played out in the media because I am a Biden, my father never once suggested that the family's public profile should be my priority.

That's how I judge a winner - how somebody manages their family and raises their family.

I think I devoted my life to Pierre Trudeau and our beautiful children.

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.

My mother did a tremendous job of raising four children in Ottawa under a spotlight.

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'