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

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Michele Bachmann
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 6
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Waterloo
Iowa
Michele Marie Bachmann
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Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.
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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.
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But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly, men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.
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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.
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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.
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Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.
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They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.
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I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.
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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.
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I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.
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Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.
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We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.
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My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed and the way that she carried herself. And both my grandmothers, they were women of very modest means. But they were also ladies.
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Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.
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I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
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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.
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Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.
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I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.
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You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.
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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.
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