The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.