Michele Bachmann Quotes

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Michele Bachmann

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 6, 1956

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

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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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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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We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

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When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

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I don't need government to be successful.

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The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.

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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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Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

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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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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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Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

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I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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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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What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

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Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

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The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

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Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.

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If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

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People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

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