Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

One of the things I've done personally is bring my girlfriends into my health and fitness journeys.

After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like me, in my neighborhood, that could be here if they had more support from their families, better financial aid. But the gap is so wide once you miss that opportunity. So I was always interested in figuring out, How do you bridge that? I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.