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" I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since. "
Michele Bachmann
Here
Congress
Minnesota
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Best
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" 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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Country
Want
People
" 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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Act
" 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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College
Tax
School
" We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe. "
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American
Information
People
" 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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Tough
People
" 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. "
Michele Bachmann
Check
Someone
Way
" When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card. "
Michele Bachmann
Campaign
Political
Me
" 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. "
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Corruption
You
Political
" 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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Moment
Government
Independence
" Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already. "
Michele Bachmann
Tell
Enough
Me
" I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did. "
Michele Bachmann
Made
President
Decision
" 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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White
Wealth
Fun
" Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it. "
Michele Bachmann
Embarrassed
Profit
How
" The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. "
Michele Bachmann
Rose
Tea
Spontaneous
" Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been. "
Michele Bachmann
Been
Though
Politician
" 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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Think
American
Know
" I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady. "
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Will
Iron
Lady
" 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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Fight
Me
Strong
" 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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Economy
Small Business
Small
" 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. "
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Evidence
Say
Real
" 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. "
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Family
Organization
Government
" 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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Failure
People
Think
" 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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Long
Law
Opinion
" 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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Way
Process
Normal
" What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature. "
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Bench
Constitution
Judges
" 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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Government
Money