We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do. Michele Bachmann More Quotes by Michele Bachmann More Quotes From Michele Bachmann 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. Michele Bachmann running children years 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. Michele Bachmann political pay giving While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist. Michele Bachmann citing issues political 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. Michele Bachmann united-states sides running When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card. Michele Bachmann issues campaigns political 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. Michele Bachmann eye men book Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been. Michele Bachmann titles politician The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does. Michele Bachmann doe world jesus The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. Michele Bachmann party rose tea 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 pro-life party perfect 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. Michele Bachmann government light president 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. Michele Bachmann government taken people I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government. Michele Bachmann government people thinking Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare. Michele Bachmann obamacare democracy house 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. Michele Bachmann people looks thinking I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with. Michele Bachmann strong average thinking 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. Michele Bachmann government people thinking 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. Michele Bachmann issues california thinking 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. Michele Bachmann zimbabwe decision country 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. Michele Bachmann love-of-my-life husband rights
