Top 100 Michele Bachmann Quotes
#1. I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.
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#2. I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.
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#4. I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians
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#5. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.
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#6. I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
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#7. If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.
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#8. I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.
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#9. What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.
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#10. Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.
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#11. I feel like I'm a professional. I've been a professional for a number of years. I'm a businesswoman and a tax lawyer and a professional and so that's how I treat other people.
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#12. What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.
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#13. You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.
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#14. Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.
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#15. I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
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#16. While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
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#17. In some ways, to believe in evolution is almost like a following; a cult following - if you don't believe in evolution, you're considered completely backward. That seems to me very indicative of bias as well.
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#19. When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.
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#20. It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.
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#21. Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.
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#23. If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.
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#25. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
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#26. The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.
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#27. We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.
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#28. I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a dual citizen since I was married in 1978, I have never exercised any rights of that citizenship.
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#29. My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
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#32. Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.
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#33. I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.
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#34. Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.
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#35. We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.
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#36. This is President Obama's number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.
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#37. Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.
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#38. It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.
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#39. Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.
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#40. If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.
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#41. If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.
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#42. A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.
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#43. There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!
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#44. I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
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#45. Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,
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#46. Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.
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#48. Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult.
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#49. The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
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#50. I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.
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#51. I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.
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#52. I know for my family, the only question that we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that.
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#53. People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
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#54. Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today.
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#57. I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.
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#58. Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
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#59. A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.
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#60. All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.
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#61. I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.
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#62. The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.
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#63. It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector ... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.
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#64. Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight ...
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#65. Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too.
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#66. One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.
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#67. Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.
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#68. The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific Congressional district.
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#69. I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
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#70. My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'
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#71. It's part of Satan I think to say that this is "gay." It's anything but gay.
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#72. A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.
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#73. I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].
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#74. Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.
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#75. Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.
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#76. My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed and the way that she carried herself. And both my grandmothers, they were women of very modest means. But they were also ladies.
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#77. What I'm talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps.
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#78. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.
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#79. Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.
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#80. My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children ...
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#81. I haven't had a gaffe or something that I've done that has caused me to fall in the polls.
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#82. You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.
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#83. If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!
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#84. The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
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#85. Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.
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#86. Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT.
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#87. I'm an affectionate person I'm a person who hugs, hugs people and I shake hands.
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#88. I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.
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#89. Look into the heart of each child. That child might be suffering and eventually they'll be an adult, but help them get to that next plane because they have something to offer.
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#90. I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.
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#91. When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.
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#92. I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.
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#93. I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. I have a spine made out of titanium.
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#94. My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain.
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#95. The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
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#96. Christians must engage in "spiritual warfare" to combat same-sex marriage.
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#97. We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
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#98. If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
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#99. I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
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#100. Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.
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