“…As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the President to [travel to Denmark] for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid [for the Olympic games] home, and you have put together a phenomenal set of ideas that, no matter what the outcome is, we should be proud of as a city…”
–First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, discussing her trip to Copenhagen on behalf of the city of Chicago.
Photo: Reuters, 1 October 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
