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The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Michele Bachmann

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Michele Bachmann
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 6
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Lawyer
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United States Representative
Waterloo
Iowa
Michele Marie Bachmann
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We have to have a candidate who is going to stand for our issues and our values and be a true, proven constitutional conservative.
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If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.
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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.
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Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.
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I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
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Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
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While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
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I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
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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.
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All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
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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.
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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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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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Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.
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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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I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have 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.
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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.
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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'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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