Quotes by Michele Bachmann

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Love

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Education

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Life

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

— Michele Bachmann

Success

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Life

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Success

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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

— Michele Bachmann

Hope

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

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

— Michele Bachmann

Education

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

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

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States. We have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play.

— Michele Bachmann

Love

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

— Michele Bachmann

Wisdom