My most important title is Mom in Chief

Success is only meaningful - and enjoyable - if it feels like your own.

When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you?

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it...and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we love.