Michelle Obama: That East Wing, ‘That Is Not Mine, It Is Ours’ — ‘What Rules Are We Following?’

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OBAMA: “But let me tell you, Stephen, people have asked me how I feel about the move, and what I will remind people is that house is not our house. I never viewed it, we never viewed it as our house. We were there for a time. We had a job to do. We always felt it was the people’s house.
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And yes, every family, every administration has a right and a duty to maintain the house, make investments and improvements, and there are plenty of things that needed fixing there, but the thing that — it makes me confused. I am confused by what are our norms, what are our standards, what are our traditions? I just feel like, what is important to us as a nation anymore? Because I am lost. There were a whole standard of norms and rules that we followed to a T, that we painstakingly tried to uphold because it was bigger than us. That East Wing, that is not mine. My feelings about that, it not mine, it is ours.”