Top 75 Michele Bachmann Quotes

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn’t whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn’t embarrassed by it.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth’s life cycle.

I pledge to you I’m not a talker. I’m a doer.

The world defines ‘waste’ very differently than Jesus does.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

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.

A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it’s just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

The one thing you can’t buy, find, or create is time.

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.

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.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be ‘liberty.’ That’s what inspires me and motivates me more than anything – just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

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

I’m not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

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.

I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be – would love to see an expose like that.

I would agree that President Carter didn’t live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I’ve been faithful to that pledge.

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.

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.

People think when you have a, quote, ‘bank failure,’ that that is the end of the bank. And it isn’t necessarily.

People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t need government to be successful.

I think people recognize I’m very sincere in what I say.

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.

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.

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

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that’s when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

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.

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn’t work to implement cap and trade.

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.

You don’t stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

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.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people’s money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

I don’t have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love him; he’s a kick.

I’ve given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

I don’t want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can’t necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

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

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.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

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.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

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.

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

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.

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