The crowd erupted after Obama’s now-famous line at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. She said, “Now, unfortunately, we know what comes next. We know folks are gonna do everything they can to distort her [Kamala Harris’s] truth. My husband and I sadly know a little something about this. For years Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. See, his limited narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who happen to be Black. I want to know, who’s gonna tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might be one of those Black jobs?”

At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she famously said, “We try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. How we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith… How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, ‘When they go low, we go high.’”

While campaigning for Hillary Clinton in 2016 in Fairfax, Virginia, she said, “And we need someone, not with good judgment, but with superb judgment in their own right… We also need someone who is steady and measured. Because when you’re making life or death, war or peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off,” she said. *crowd loses it*

In her last speech as first lady she seemed to hold back tears as she said, “To the young people here, and the young people out there, do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter, or like you don’t have a place in our American story, because you do. And you have a right to be exactly who you are. But I also want to be very clear. This right isn’t just handed to you. No, this right has to be earned every single day. You cannot take your freedoms for granted.”

While campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, she said, “And this is what I want you all to remember. We have a lot of work to do in this country. But it is joyful work. It is purposeful work. But it is an undeniable fact that we live in a more perfect union than when we started. When most of the folks in this room couldn’t vote because they weren’t a man, or white, or a landowner. It is an undeniable fact that my mother, who I lost this year, wasn’t welcome at department stores as a young woman. But for eight years she had the best view in America from her room at the White House.”

While campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Obama pumped up the crowd saying, “So I’m asking you one last time, let us not just sit around and complain. Let’s do something! If your brother, or your son, or boyfriend, needs to hear your perspective, are you willing to talk to them? … Are you willing to do something? If you have an aunt who’s thinking about sitting this one out or voting for a third party, are you willing to have an uncomfortable conversation? Are you willing to do something?”