''Michelle will never run for office'': Barack Obama

US President Barack Obama has watered down any speculation that his wife and US first lady Michelle Obama will run for a political office in the future.

Speaking in an interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner conducted the day after the US presidential election earlier this month and published online on Monday, Obama said, 

"Michelle will never run for office."

"She is as talented a person as I know. You can see the incredible resonance she has with the American people. But I joke that she's too sensible to want to be in politics" he added.

President Obama also said that once he leaves office in January, he and his wife will "continue to be very active" on their belief that "when you work with people on the ground at a grassroots level, change happens."

Associated Press