[ applause ] >> people say, michelle, that is unrealistic. it's essential that we maintain the family. i thank god for families. my parents were married here in waterloo, iowa. high dad productly wore the united states unform at their wedding. unfortunately they were divorced. i was raised by a single mother. we went below poverty overnight but my mother said it won't be that way. it's going to get better. families aren't perfect, mine wasn't, one thing i learned from my great family is that we did stick together. that was a great life lesson because i saw that in iowa, we are social conservatives and we will never be ashamed of being