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
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.
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
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.