--- title: DNC: Michelle Obama's 5 Best Quotes From Speech description: First Lady Michelle Obama's speech stole the show during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. 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Paul Morigi—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 26, 2016 2:08 PM UTC First Lady Michelle Obama’s impassioned speech [stole the show](http://time.com/4423176/democratic-convention-michelle-obama-star/) during the [opening night](http://time.com/4423242/dnc-michelle-obama-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders/) of the Democratic National Convention on Monday. As she urged Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton, she spoke about her personal experience in the White House, serving as a role model to young Americans while watching her own daughters grow up during the past eight years. She emphasized her belief that the president who follows her husband should “be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.” Here are five highlights from her address. (Read the speech in its entirety [here](http://time.com/4421538/democratic-convention-michelle-obama-transcript/).) **1\. “When they go low, we go high”** --- > “” --- **2\. “We know that our words and actions matter”** --- > “” --- **3\. “Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life”** --- > “” --- **4\. “The issues a president faces … cannot be boiled down to 140 characters”** --- > “” --- **5\. “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves”** --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4423727/michelle-obama-dnc-convention-speech-quotes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4423727/michelle-obama-dnc-convention-speech-quotes/"},"headline":"Michelle Obama's 5 Best Quotes at DNC: 'I Wake Up Every Morning in a House That Was Built by Slaves'","datePublished":"2016-07-26T14:08:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:21.118Z","description":"\"Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again\"","url":"https://time.com/4423727/michelle-obama-dnc-convention-speech-quotes/","keywords":["motto","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","White House","Michelle Obama","Democratic National Convention"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e90b72baec2b216/69889f510b72e31f6a6ea5e2/michelle-obama-convention-quotes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e90b72baec2b216/69889f510b72e31f6a6ea5e2/michelle-obama-convention-quotes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Democratic National Convention - Day 1","caption":"2016 Democratic National Convention - Day 1","creditText":"Paul Morigi—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4423727/michelle-obama-dnc-convention-speech-quotes/","name":"Michelle Obama's 5 Best Quotes at DNC: 'I Wake Up Every Morning in a House That Was Built by Slaves'"}}]}] ```