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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
Family
Organization
Government
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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 want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election! "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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 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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Time
Best
Marriage
" My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. "
Michele Bachmann
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Nation
Policy
" 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. "
Michele Bachmann
Important
Life
Perfect
" The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. "
Michele Bachmann
Light
Bulb
Business
" I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer. "
Michele Bachmann
Doer
You
Talker
" While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist. "
Michele Bachmann
Cite
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Am
" 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
Look
American
Up
" People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. "
Michele Bachmann
Failure
People
Think
" 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. "
Michele Bachmann
Me
Prayer
Believing
" 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'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. "
Michele Bachmann
Vanity
Glory
Power
" 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. "
Michele Bachmann
People
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" 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 come here as one of you - an Iowan! "
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Here
You
Come
" 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. "
Michele Bachmann
Fight
Me
Strong
" Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. "
Michele Bachmann
History
Never
United States
" 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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Like
Tax
Death
" 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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My Life
I Am
Proud
" 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
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Real
" Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure. "
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" The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. "
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