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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

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Michele Bachmann
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 6
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United States Representative
Waterloo
Iowa
Michele Marie Bachmann
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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.
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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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Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again.
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We're running out of rich people in this country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.
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Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa... I know what it means to be from Iowa - what we value and what's important... I grew up here in Iowa.
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I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.
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And what a bizarre time we're in, Jan, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.
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Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
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My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.
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We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.
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The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.
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