Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television show. Kids don't choose what's served to them for lunch at school, and shouldn't be deciding what's served to them for dinner at home. And they don't decide whether there's time in the day or room in the budget to learn about healthy eating or to spend time playing outside.
Michelle ObamaWhen the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And thatโs where the problem comes in.. ... And Iโm here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.
Michelle ObamaI think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.
Michelle ObamaI think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
Michelle ObamaI was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.
Michelle Obama