Michele Bachmann
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 April 1956
CityWaterloo, IA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.
The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.
The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.
Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
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.