I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

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

Start, as parents, with yourselves, number one.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

And what has been just completely heart warming is to see that people are really hungry for something different.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.