Quotes by Michele Bachmann

About Michele Bachmann:

Michele Marie Bachmann is an American politician. A Republican, she is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, who represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district, a post she held from 2007 to 2015. The district includes several of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, as well as St. Cloud.
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We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

Michele Bachmann

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundament...

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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

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Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

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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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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosio...

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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

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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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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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I don't need government to be successful.

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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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I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.

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I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

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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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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...

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Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

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I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

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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 imperf...

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Author Bio

  • NameMichele Bachmann
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornApril 6, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer