In the end, we cannot separate our story from the broader American story.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at DNC event in Washington, DC

We think that completing the funding for fiscal year 2011, a fiscal year that's nearly half over, should be a relatively easy task, and that the differences that separate us are not so great that we cannot find the common ground in a way that each side can feel that it accomplished something in getting it done.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing