Quotes from Michele Bachmann

Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult.

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I 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.

I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

The one thing you can't buy, find, or create is time.

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.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.