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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.

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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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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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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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'm an affectionate person I'm a person who hugs, hugs people and I shake hands.
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I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
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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.
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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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I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. [...] I have a spine made out of titanium.
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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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My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.
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I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
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The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.
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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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I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.
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