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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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Michele Marie Bachmann
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.
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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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Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
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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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My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.
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If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
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The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.
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I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.
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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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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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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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They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.
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I haven’t had a gaffe or something that I’ve done that has caused me to fall in the polls.
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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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Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.
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We're running out of rich people in this country.
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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
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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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