Quotes from Michele Bachmann

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.

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

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.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States. We have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play.

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.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain.

It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.

I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.

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.

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.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

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.

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon, I love him, he's a kick...

Let's not do that. Let's love people. Let's care about people. Let's repeal it now while we can.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

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.