Michele Bachmann Quotes

I think it’s best if there’s an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage – if conceivably it was gone – we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that’s when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

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.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn’t embarrassed by it.

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.

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.

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.

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That’s why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

It’s tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.

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.

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.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

I think people recognize I’m very sincere in what I say.

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.

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

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.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

I would agree that President Carter didn’t live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

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

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren’t. And that’s what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

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.

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

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I’m no different, I’ve made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

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.

The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn’t want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn’t know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren’t sure that I could win the seat.

Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

The American people’s vote can’t be bought.

I want to be America’s Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

The Constitution is government’s stop sign. It says, you – the three branches of government – can go so far and no farther.

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.

The one thing you can’t buy, find, or create is time.

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.

I don’t have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love him; he’s a kick.

I come here as one of you – an Iowan!

I pledge to you I’m not a talker. I’m a doer.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I’ve been faithful to that pledge.

I’m not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

My future is full – it is limitless – and my passions for America will remain.

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.

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.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous.

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.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

You can’t take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That’s corruption to do that.

I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.

I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be – would love to see an expose like that.