I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt]. Michele Bachmann More Quotes by Michele Bachmann More Quotes From Michele Bachmann We have to have a candidate who is going to stand for our issues and our values and be a true, proven constitutional conservative. Michele Bachmann values conservative I'm the only one that can take the debate to Barack Obama and win and be elected. Michele Bachmann barack debate winning I turned to the president and I said, something to the effect of, 'Mr. President, you need to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities, because if you don't, Iran will have a nuclear weapon on your watch and the course of world history will change,'. Michele Bachmann politics I was on the front lines of Benghazi, the Russian reset, all of President Obama's failed foreign policy forays, including his failed strategy of reaching out to Iran, and she was an author and the architect of his failed foreign policies, so I want to be involved in 2016 and hold her accountable for her decisions. Michele Bachmann politics He'd been president, and he was asked to run for Congress specifically to fight against slavery. And he was all worn out, as most presidents are, but he was so moved by slavery he came back, and for over twenty years, he stood over here, and every single day he stood up with his petition to stop slavery. And every day he was booed down and hated, hated, hated by his fellow Congressmen. Until finally at the very end of his life, he stood up again with his petition, and collapsed. Michele Bachmann politics You have to go not only through Statuary Hall, and you have to go through kind of an anteroom, then you get down to the House of Representatives. So it's quite a ways. Michele Bachmann politics They said well, there's a broom closet over here off of Statuary Hall. Michele Bachmann politics I wasn't politically correct, and I wasn't as worried about my own political career, i was really worried about the issues of the country. And what I was doing, I think, was just giving voice to what I would do if I was a mom back home. Michele Bachmann top-news I don't know who's going to miss me more when I leave Congress -- Nancy Pelosi or John Boehner -- I have no idea! I've been a thorn, I think, in both of their sides. Michele Bachmann top-news The first time I ever came to this city was to dance at the inaugural ball for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale! Which is kind of hard to believe. But then I saw how their policies worked out, they were a complete and utter failure, and then that's why I became a Republican, and I never looked back. Michele Bachmann top-news 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. Michele Bachmann you government money history 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. Michele Bachmann new think you government Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. Michele Bachmann morals morality faith culture I come here as one of you - an Iowan! Michele Bachmann here come you